Argument Quotes

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In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the… — Thomas Paine
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the… — Gaston Bachelard
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its… — Francis Crick
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of… — Louis Agassiz
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. — Joseph Addison
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. — Louis D. Brandeis
Debate is the death of conversation. — Emil Ludwig
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment,… — Walter Savage Landor
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! — Walt Whitman
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. — Charles Caleb Colton
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. — Andre Gide
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. — Rufus Choate
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. — Jascha Heifetz
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. — E. W. Howe
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. — Alexander Pope

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