Quotes About Controversy

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.