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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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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."

"When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary.' If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention."

"There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us."

"Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments."

"To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive."

"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."

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"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."

"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."

"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."

"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."

"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."

"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."

"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."

"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
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