Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions,… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV,… — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Our whole strength rests on the validity of [Joseph Smith's] vision. It either occurred or it did not occur. If it did… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The hope that God has provided for you is not merely a wish. Neither is it dependent on other people, possessions, or… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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