Eugenie Scott (Eugenie Carol Scott) Quotes

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

Eugenie Scott

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• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
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• There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

  

  Jackie Speier
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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
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  • Theory

• You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Want
  • Annoying
  • Data

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Present
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• The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Beautiful
  • Fate
  • Theory

• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Optimist

• When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Picture

• The dead don't bother with particulars.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Dead
  • Particular
  • Bother

• The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Knows
  • Criticism
  • Reluctant

• Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Theory
  • Suits
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• Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Fear

• No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • World
  • Men
  • Bad

• When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.

  

  Umar
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• When Gerard took over, he was trying to get us back on track, but he was also trying to ease our pain. Now, it's a fresh start for everyone and it's time for us to make a move. He knows that and he's not letting anything slide.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Pain

• Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Knowing

• To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Believe
  • Atheism
  • Would Be

• I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Knows
  • Corners
  • Around The Corner

• The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Jesus
  • Theory
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• The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.

  

  David Lilienthal
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  • Personality

• If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Inspiring
  • Sensible
  • Mismanagement

• I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

  

  Eugenie Scott
  • Knows
  • Theory
  • Atheism