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“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.”

“Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.”

“A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.”

Source: Why Atheism?

“To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.”

Different Ends Reason Order Religious Moral Issues Objects Type Limits Intellectual Commitment Ideals Aim Fundamentals Pursue Concrete Faithfulness Coercion

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.”

Ends Jobs Pleasure Intellectual Commitment Depth Pursuit Find Me Dead Ends Plumbing

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.”

People Kind Reason Done Culture Left Interesting Democracy Rights Trouble Dangerous Periods Intellectual Commitment Sick Harm Civilized 1960s Obedient Times Of Trouble

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.”

World Mind Vision Intellectual Commitment Suicide Openness Irrevocable New Vision

Author:Alan Watts

“Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.”

Problem Grows Education Growing Intellectual Research Commitment Intellectual Life Centerpieces

Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

“The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.”

Feels Problem Science Answers Intellectual Commitment Capacity Scientist Philosopher Satisfied Maturity Fewer

Book:Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

Source: Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

“Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must, in turn, sustain nature. Rationality alone, however, cannot be our guide in the task of restoring our environment. A spiritual connection to nature must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.”

Source: Ecomysticism: The Profound Experience of Nature as Spiritual Guide

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.”

Way Dark Subjects Intellectual Evidence Commitment Opposites Intelligent Blind Discussion Leap Irrational Avoiding Ridicule Convenient Blind Faith

Author:John Lennox

“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.”

Virtue Crime Theory Intellectual Commitment Blind

Book:The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

“Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.”

Writing Humans Understanding Conditions Intellectual Commitment Criticism Islam Western Contribution Human Condition Emancipation Audacious Deep Understanding

Author:Mohammed Arkoun