Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
I don't think we are all irrational every time we fail to see through an argument in a book, but suppose it's… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
“It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy's clutches. That might have… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated;… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“the late historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch in his book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. His… — John Fea Copy Share Image
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that… — Michael Buerk Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Copy Share Image
All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I'm not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing. You can… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image