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Judging Quotes by Steven Pinker
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of…
- One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
More Judging Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? — Douglas Adams
- What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who… — Michele Bachmann
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than… — Francis Bacon
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon