Human Agency Quotes

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“It happened improvisationally, indeed probably unintentionally. Participants solved one problem and created others; they reacted as often as they acted affirmatively; they moved by experience and intuition, without an overarching theory; and the whole affair took decades, involved many different actors, and coheres largely in retrospect.”
― Christine Desan, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism