Tenable Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the chromosomes.… — Richard Goldschmidt
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. — Julian Huxley
Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so. — John F. Kennedy
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism. — Michael Shermer
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by… — Ada Lovelace
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground. — Sun Bin
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical… — David Deutsch
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering… — Edgar Allan Poe
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the uncertainty in the… — Kenneth Arrow
Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself. — Peter J. Carroll
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding… — Niels Henrik Abel
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is… — John F. Kennedy
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought… — Rudolf Steiner
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,… — George Steiner

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