“When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.” StatesEnoughFoundUnitedUnited StatesBirthDrugEuropeTestsAvailableCaringAdministrationContemptPillsHormonesBirth ControlAmerican WomanNot CaringFdaDosageBirth Control Pills Author:Warren Farrell
“I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.” MotherBirthTestsAbortionInjuryException Author:John F. Kerry
“And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?” GivingTwoStrongBirthWeaknessWeakTestsCompromiseGenerousMercifulAccommodate Author:Salman Rushdie
“Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.” WayWellsDifferentReasonFactsOrderCommonExampleBirthTestsCurrentsOne WayEvolveTraitsHypothesisConfusingUtilitySkullsAncestryFallacyFacilitateSuccessorsMammalsLineageAdaptive Author:Elliott Sober
“Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.” GivingHumansMayNumbersBrainTechnologyHuman NatureBirthTestsInfiniteThriveAffinity Book:Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny Source: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.” LoveChildrenStoriesAgeFallParentRealizingCasesBirthPromiseLuckyTestsFalling In LoveWanderRealizationSettlingPhrasesMortalityStory Of My LifeBirth And Death Author:Mitch Albom
“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.” GivingShouldFirstsChildrenPresidentCollegeBirthShould HaveTestsDrivingSatVehicleInstitute Author:Marilyn Manson
“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.” KnowsMenMadeSchoolScienceValuesBornKnowledgeTeacherAmountBirthCapacityDeterminationTestsExtraordinaryDetermineAccomplishAccomplishmentAcquireGood ManRecallsAcquisitionEagerness Book:Prejudices: Third Series Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.” HardDreamBigsAbleTogetherCommunityChallengesChanceFailingEventsHumilityHard WorkBirthCircumstancesShapesIdealsTestsWinnerOur TimeLoserCitizenshipGet AheadWinner And Loser Author:Barack Obama