The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method,… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in… — Andrea diSessa Copy Share Image
So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?' — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine,… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
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