Quotes About Debate

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

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

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.