I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. Its impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. – Alan Dershowitz
Ive thought hard about my psychological connections and I think Ive managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. – Alan Dershowitz
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that theyre wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because theyre making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right. – Alan Dershowitz
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. – Alan Dershowitz
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? – Ted Olson