Plausible Quotes

129 quotes by 116 authors

There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he… — H. L. Mencken
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after… — Ian Mcewan
If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with… — Paul Feyerabend
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and… — Michael Frayn
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western… — Ken Wilber
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,… — John Desmond Bernal
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. — Nancy Pearcey
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief… — Clive Cussler
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone… — Ben Marcus
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we… — Carl Jung
We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a… — Bill McKibben
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. — Timothy Geithner
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to… — Marilyn Hacker
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends.… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. — Amy Clampitt
As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's… — Michael Loceff
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony. — W. Somerset Maugham

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