J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
J.B.S. Haldane, Lecture on BBC Third Program, 1965
Anecdotes
“My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.”
Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2495
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“To be sure, for he has never learnt to speak well.”
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Diogenes Laertius
“The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others.”
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
As quoted by William J Brennan Jr, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court, NY Times (October 6, 1963); and later in "The Role of the Court — The Challenge of the Future" in An Affair with Freedom (1967).
Extra-judicial writings
Context: The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it — if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate — for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.
“A good death. Well, he thought, given that you had to die, why want a bad one?”
Source: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 27 “The Core” (p. 551)