"Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method."

-- Bernard Lown

#Acceptance Quotes #Science Quotes #Claims Quotes

“I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.”
“The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.”
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
“In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate the "green virtues" which includes the virtue of cooperativeness. This would not bring about the best possible world but it would set us on the path of making it better.”
“I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.”
“I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.”
“A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
“We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.”

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