"It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Philip Kitcher

#Ideas Quotes #Political Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.”
“It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”
“My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.”
“Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.”

Source : Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”
“When we learn to focus on love, grace, and gratitude, life is really quite lovely.”
“One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. â€¦We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”

Source : "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.

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