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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
— Alfred de Vigny
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I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am appaulled by the…
— George H. Smith
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Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say…
— David Pocock
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in…
— Barack Obama
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When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must…
— Hudson Taylor
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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to…
— Unknown Author
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Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.
— Halton Arp
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I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the…
— John Eccles
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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 nature; I know…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
— Abraham Pais
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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that…
— A.J. Ayer
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The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of…
— Robert H. Jackson
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It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The…
— Isaac Todhunter
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne);…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the…
— Elisha Gray
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You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.
— Albert Mohler
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more…
— Margaret E. Knight
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When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that…
— Frank J. Tipler
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Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible…
— William Lane Craig
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The…
— Julian Coolidge
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other…
— William Merritt Chase
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