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
It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now?… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“I approach the creation-evolution dispute not as a scientist but as a problem of law, which means among other things that I… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“The two or so times we actually fought she smashed a plate and stormed out into the night. I have always disliked… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Video store arguments really bother me. Let's say it's a slow night on campus so you decide to stay in and rent… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
I like it when people are opinionated. I like an opinion. I like people that will fight for their opinion 'til an… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced… — Genrich Altshuller Copy Share Image
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
![“I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38b/paul-laffoley-7077_angle_i-would-have-private-conversations-with_1024797.jpg)
