"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, Light, Rest, Sun

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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 courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Debate, Courage, Belief, Judgment

"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."

Phil Bredesen, American Politician

Debate, Energy, Focus, Liberals

"I don't debate with liars."

Evo Morales, Bolivian Statesman

Debate,

"In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate."

Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Statesman

Debate, Fighting, Public

"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Debate, Bias, Opinion, Proof, Perspective

"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."

Jeane Kirkpatrick, American Diplomat

Debate, Effort, Security

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Debate, Information

"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Debate, Argument, Religion, Truth, Belief

"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."

Bobby Scott, American Politician

Debate, Example, Inequality, Public

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

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Debate, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

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"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

"Who will observe the observers?"

Will

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

Army

"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

"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 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

"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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"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."

"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."

"I don't debate with liars."

"In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate."

"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."

"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."

"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."

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

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

"Who will observe the observers?"

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

"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."

"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."

"The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world."

"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."

"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."

"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."

"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.""