"You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong."

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Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

Robin Ince

#Talking Quotes #Balance Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.”

Source : Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.268, Open Road Media
“Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.”
“I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”
“In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.”

Source : "Belgium King Albert II Christmas Speech Sparks Controversy". www.bbc.com. December 27, 2012.
“You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.”

Source : David Shields (2008). “The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead”, p.3, Vintage
“If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are pulled as well as pushed along its axis? The future has, after all, as much or as little reality as the past, and there is nothing logically inconceivable in introducing, as a working hypothesis, an element of finality, supplementary to the element of causality, into our equations. It betrays a great lack of imagination to believe that the concept of "purpose" must necessarily be associated with some anthropomorphic deity.”
“You go back and look at the situations from both angles, and that's where the progress and the growth came, by being able to look at it from the other side. Moving forward, knowing to do the right thing was learning from my mistakes of the past. Sometimes it's just, don't do that.”
“If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

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