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"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
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"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."
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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."
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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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"If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions."
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"When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do."
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"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."
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"Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments."
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"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."
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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
Proof
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
Deals
"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control."
Nature
"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
Mathematics
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
May
"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
Nature
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
Body
"It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them."
Law
"The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world."
Quest
"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
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