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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
— Grace Hopper
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out,…
— George Orwell
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Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and…
— George W. Bush
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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's…
— Oprah Winfrey
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There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit…
— Harry S. Truman
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I…
— Albert Einstein
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Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance…
— Bertrand Russell
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion…
— Galileo Galilei
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern…
— Edmund Burke
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But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had…
— Benjamin Rush
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It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as…
— James Madison
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A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and…
— James Madison
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
— H. L. Mencken
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When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people…
— Bertrand Russell
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Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
— Ricky Gervais
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The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
— Thomas Jefferson
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as…
— James Madison
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