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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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"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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"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
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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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"When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate."
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"Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it."
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"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."
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"One can always debate questions back and forth."
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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
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"Who will observe the observers?"
Will
"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
Hope
"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
"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
Nature
"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
Proof
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
Army
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
Hope
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
Confidence
"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."
Debate
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
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