“Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.” — Kenneth A. Bruffee Copy Share Image
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. — David D. Clark Copy Share Image
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'? — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States. — William Barr Copy Share Image
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Decentralized consensus technology will reach the mainstream when products are built that both empower consumers to take control of their own data… — Nick Tomaino Copy Share Image
My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
We have been engaging the Government of Swaziland for some time on this issue of the democratization of Swaziland. In particular, I… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
My fear is that we will mistake the brand, the "resistance," for greater unity than actually exists and wind up settling for… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
During a time of surplus, a time of peace before 2001, it was much easier to try and find middle ground. We… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he… — Angus King Copy Share Image
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image