Tenable Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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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
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
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Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
— John F. Kennedy
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
— Richard Dawkins
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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
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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
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On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.
— Sun Bin
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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
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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
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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
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Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.
— Peter J. Carroll
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Tenable Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Tenable Quotes as follows: