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Against Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and…
- A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
- It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with…
- After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as…
- Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night…
- Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business…
- Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing.…
- Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange