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I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than… — Herman Melville
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.… — James A. Baldwin
There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would… — Unknown Author
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. — Richard Thompson
The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet… — David Cassidy
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he… — Gautama Buddha
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with… — Unknown Author
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But… — Unknown Author
These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple… — Don Berliner
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form… — Gautama Buddha
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to… — Edward Humes
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better. — William of Ockham
Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred. — William of Ockham
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with… — Viola Spolin
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of… — Soong May-ling
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. — Edmund Burke
"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed… — George Lakoff
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human… — Bertrand Russell
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.… — Paulo Coelho
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. — Norman Lamm
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces… — Walter Pater
There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them. — Peter Brook
It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the… — Paul Feyerabend

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