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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 of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
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"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
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"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."
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"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand."
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"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."
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"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
Body
"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
"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
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."
Hope
"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
"Who will observe the observers?"
Will
"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
"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
Proof
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
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