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The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
~ Phil Hartman
La ciencia es acumulativa; cada nueva teoría incorpora las teorías anteriores válidas como aproximaciones, e incluso explica por qué esas aproximaciones funcionan, caso de que así sea.
~ Steven Weinberg
Pe ce se bazeaz? oare un poet a c?rui filozofie e socotit? ast?zi ca fiind tot atât de profund? È™i de valabil? pe cît îi e cîntul de proasp?t È™i de pur, cînd vorbeÈ™te despre "planurile divine ale naturii"?
~ Thomas Hardy
Now we can see what makes mathematics unique. Only in mathematics is there no significant correction—only extension. Once the Greeks had developed the deductive method, they were correct in what they did, correct for all time. Euclid was incomplete and his work has been extended enormously, but it has not had to be corrected. His theorems are, every one of them, valid to this day.
~ Carl B. Boyer
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
~ Isaac Asimov
I do not consider that resisting new technology is necessarily irrational: waiting for time to operate its testing might be a valid approach if one holds that we have an incomplete picture of things.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?
~ Charles Darwin
Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.
~ Kimberlee Roth
Norms are valid only for normal situations.
~ Carl Schmitt
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
~ Carlos Salinas
Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.
~ Carrie Jones
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
~ George Jean Nathan
The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.
~ Ted Chiang
The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available. When
~ Ted Chiang
If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.
~ Cassandra Clare
Whether or not this was a valid theory, the fact was that Aïda swallowed it hook, line, and sinker and used it to inform her genetic strategy in the Great Game. And to the extent that the Four bothered to develop counterstrategies, they had to take it into account.
~ Neal Stephenson
Agent Shelan wondered if it would really hurt diplomatic relations with the Klingon Empire all that much if she tossed Korath, Son of Monak, into an antimatter reactor. Surely if anyone would recognize homicide as a valid response to intolerable annoyance, it would be the Klingons.
~ Christopher L. Bennett
If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.
~ Cassandra Clare
He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.
~ James Finn Garner
Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~ Erich Fromm
But this isn't about sports competition. It's about the rejection of what God determines for a person at conception. Put another way, these are creatures saying to the Creator that their impossible and diabolical choices are valid and that God's sovereignty is not. Such a person implies that God made a mistake, that they are angry with Him for that mistake, and that they will
~ Terry James