America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely… — David Simon Copy Share Image
You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don't… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed'… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
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