Home / Quotes / Quote by Stanley Fish

Quote by Stanley Fish

“A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.”

Quote by Stanley Fish

Author

Stanley Fish is an American scholar renowned for his contributions to the fields of law, literature, and critical theory. Born on April 19, 1938, he has been a professor at Yale University and the University of Chicago, as well as an accomplished writer and critic. more

You May Also Like

“If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.”

“When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?”

Book:Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions

Source: Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions

“Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.”

Waiting Secret Cosmos

Book:Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions

Source: Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions

“When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.”

Problem School Answers Math Subjective

Author:Lisa Randall

“You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.”

Hard Might Earth Force Imagine Paper Weak Gravity Pulling Magnet Clip Paper Clips

Author:Lisa Randall

“Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.”

Knows Facts Force Views Doors Approach Logic Scientist Boundaries Experiments Hypothesis Domain Verify

Author:Lisa Randall

“It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.”

Thinking Way Hubris

Author:Lisa Randall

“You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.”

World Used New World

Author:Edward Witten

“String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.”

Thinking Littles Nature Theory Deeper Description Strings Particles Loops String Theory

Author:Edward Witten

“Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.”

People Trying Shows Watches Gay Picks Managers Stations Looking Back Talk Shows

Author:Ellen DeGeneres