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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to…
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life.…
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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat…
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…
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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
— Alan Greenspan
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the…
— John F. Kennedy
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out…
— Francis Crick
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial…
— Robert K. Merton
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