To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question."… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If you come from a working-class background, you can't afford to write full time, because you're just not being paid. Basically, all… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway,… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control. — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners,… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who… — William James Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force,… — Meles Zenawi 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
The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
