Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
I had heard all the rumors and controversy swirling about the 'In Utero' recordings - there was a lot of, 'Oh, the… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the… — Michael Isikoff Copy Share Image
Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
If you look at the rights situation - what media companies pay - then you see that the rights prices continue to… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
“The summary of Lambert and Lillenfelt’s “Bloodstains” in Scientific American Mind in the October 12, 2007 The Informed Reader passes along many… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty'… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
We don't back down from controversy - we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it,… — Dave Portnoy Copy Share Image
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Never put yourself in controversy. Be transparent and speak your mind. Be clear on your point of view, stand by it and… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish. — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation -… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
“The “controversy of Zion” is the historical continuum of Gentile contention and divine jealousy over (1) the Jewish people, (2) the Land… — Dalton Lifsey Copy Share Image
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
All things are contrary to a man without discernment But the weapons of perception are wise lips. — Proverbs 14:7 Copy Share Image
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Please don't think that I got married on TV for publicity. I already enjoyed a huge fan following, courtesy my character in… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road. — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
