Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

Richard P. Feynman

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Richard K. Morgan

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

Richard Dawkins

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Richard Baxter

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Rex Hunt

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

Walter Lang

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Henry Rollins

In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

John Ambrose Fleming

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

Phyllis Schlafly

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Pope Francis

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

John Henry Newman

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

John Maynard Smith

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Billy Graham

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.