Quotes About Debate

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.

I'm not saying Michael Moore's smarter than Sean Hannity, but Michael Moore is better at running interviews than Hannity, even though Hannity's running the interview!

I like people with their own opinions, and I like people who argue with me. It's very exhausting to be in a room full of people who just nod and smile.

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.

The deeper I delved into the confused and confusing thicket of nutritional science, sorting through the long-running fats versus carbs wars, the fiber skirmishes and the raging dietary supplement debates, the simpler the picture gradually became. I learned that in fact science knows a lot less about nutrition than you would expect--that in fact nutrition science is, to put it charitably, a very young science.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Biri ç?k?p bizim düÅŸüncemizin tersini söyledi mi, onun doÄŸru söyleyip söylemediÄŸine deÄŸil, doÄŸru yanl??, kendi düÅŸüncemizi savunmaya bakar?z. Bizi düzeltmek isteyene kollar?m?z? açacak yerde, yumruklar?m?z? s?k?yoruz.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

When Einstein later complained that "God does not play dice with the world," Bohr reportedly fired back, "Stop telling God what to do.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Las escuelas de derecho no deben ser espacios inmunes a la discusión política que se da en la sociedad.

They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with each other in anything, and that made their argument especially interesting and endless.

Dumneavoastr? nu sunteÈ›i Dostoievski, zise cet??eana pe care Koroviev c?uta s-o z?p?ceasc?. - Cine È™tie, cine È™tie, obiecta pezevenchiul. - Dostoievski a murit, zise femeia, dar nu prea convins?. - Protestez ! exclam? cu înfl?c?rare Koroviev. Dostoievski e nemuritor !

My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella,4 and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.

In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted