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The failure of Popper's demarcation criterion throws up an important question. Is it actually possible to find some common feature shared by all the things we call 'science...'? It may be that they share some fixed set of features that define what it is to be science, but it may not.... If so, a simple criterion for demarcating science from pseudo-science is unlikely to be found.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

What does it … feel like, to have lost an entire world?' 'Lonely.' Rat raised his many-ringed hand to rub at his neck under his broad jaw. 'But the loneliness comes from the question.

But right now I want to answer his question." He turned back to Lorq. "But to tell you—" he walked to the wall and gazed out across the city—"I have to tell you some history. And not what you learned at Causby.

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

I asked you a question. What are you doing here?" Resting his elbows on the side of the tub, he smiled lazily. She hated it when he smiled lazily. "Waiting for the bubbles to evaporate," he said.

when one has searched for these as realities, who desires and what is desired?

Andromeda in a beautiful exchange, 'Psapfo, why ignore Afroditi rich in blessings?

You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a pathless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory. "Believe nothing. Question everything. Follow only the clues.

Carlos Monsiváis expresaba en voz alta lo que todos los ciudadanos nos preguntábamos: "¿Pero qué es México? ¿una catástrofe a corto, mediano y largo plazo?".

The idea behind reciting a creed is reasonably simple. If you do not say the right lines, you may not be in the right story. For example, if you don't hear the lines, "To be or not to be, that is the question," chances are you are not watching a performance of Hamlet. —RICHARD A. LISCHER19

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

Who knows but the world may end tonight

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Something stinks here, and this time, it's not just him.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.