Eugenie Scott (Eugenie Carol Scott) Quotes
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
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When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
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Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.
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She looked creepy/adorable.
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The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
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I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.
