“Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.” WellsHas BeensBookDoneSeemsCommunityEvolutionStandardsEvidenceClaimsDecadesContraryDeceptionDiscussionSpiteExposedIconsEducatorTextbooksExaggeratedGreat Service Author:Dean H. Kenyon
“I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that will go up. The Democrats will swear that recovery was due to them. Now the Republicans, they'll say it was due to them. Nobody wanted to claim the credit for the country blowing up, but wait until it starts picking up and they'll both be on it then. See?” KnowsCountryWantedPoliticsWaitingSidesRepublicanClaimsDemocratCreditDuesRecoveryGet BetterSpiteSwearBoth SidesBlowing Up Author:Will Rogers
“We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'” KnowsStillsMatterProgressEvolutionClaimsMethodProphetSpiteBiologyQuartersMechanicJumpingUp And DownPaleontologyOver Confident Author:Errol White
“There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated with Jesus. What were specifically Christian were some of the less enlightened teachings, which have done untold harm. Christians claim that organised Christianity has been a great force for good, but this view can be maintained on one assumption only: that everything good in the Christian era is a result of Christianity and everything bad happened in spite of it.” Has BeensMadeDoneChristianJesusForceReligiousResultsViewsChristianityHappenedAtheismTeachingIdealsClaimsPositive AtheismHarmErasAssumptionSpiteEnlightenedOrganised Author:Margaret E. Knight
“Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.” WellsLooksDoeTurnsFictionLet MeClaimsResponsibleLuckSakeTricksFancySpiteSatisfyingSurprisingPuzzlesShiftingDiversionLet Me Down Author:Alice Munro
“The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.” PeoplePoliticalTermPrinciplesClaimsSpiteEtiquettePolitical CorrectnessAdaptedCorrectnessDisapprovalEnlargement Book:Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change) Source: Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)
“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.” KnowsDoeScienceNatureExistenceClaimsDifficultyResistanceSpiteVacuums Author:Evangelista Torricelli