...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy… — Henry Giroux 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
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments,… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That's not a convincing argument. Public sector jobs are cyclical. Teachers get fired when money is tight, then rehired when things get… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event...… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The Latin name for the fallacy of appealing to an illegitimate authority or expert is argumentum ad verecundiam, which means “argument to… — Aaron Larsen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most common argument against the advocates of cancel culture is that they're lame and uncreative - and I think they… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
“When people fight about something, the subject of the argument is rarely the real issue. The real issue is about vulnerability, connectedness,… — Shawn Kent Hayashi Copy Share Image
If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters,… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Playboy is very easy to work with in the sense that you tell them what you don't want to do-that you don't… — Shannen Doherty Copy Share Image
I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
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