Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.


Chapter 15 Pie With a Fork (p. 180) - Space Cadet (1948)

Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.

Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.

Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.

Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.