Elliott Sober Quotes
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.
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But lifting his dry hand He lightly touched the flowers: 'Tell me how men kiss you, Tell me how you kiss men.'
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I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.
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Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.
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We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
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I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.
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We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.
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I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.
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'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I'm bonkers about juicing. I got into it when I lived in L.A. - I'd juice three times a day.
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I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.
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All night I lay awake beside you, Leaning on my elbow, watching your Sleeping face, that face whose purity Never ceases to astonish me.
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"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.
