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“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Should Reason Enough Humanity Evolution Prove Equal Intellectual Capacity Universal Firm Heritage Reserves Anticipate Equal Power

Book:Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

Source: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.”

Men Form Culture Belief Issues Century Higher Prove Equal Opposites Prejudice Method Guilty France Realms Statistics Ads Measurement Indiana

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity or infidelity here. No prophecies, no miracles are necessary to prove this celestical communication. This revelation has made it certain that two and one make three, and that one is not three nor can three be one. We can never be so certain of any prophecy, or the fulfilment of any prophecy, or of any miracle, or the design of any miracle, as we are from the revelation of nature, that is, nature's God, that two and two are equal to four.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.”

People Want Firsts Ideas Felt Sides Hell Week Prove Equal Projects Admire Nerves Flip Prove Myself New Projects

Author:Dave Franco

“I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.”

Thinking Men World Believe Shows Steps Humility Prove Equal Election Barack

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I don't believe that human ethnic groups are equal, and I believe that's fairly easy to prove.”

Believe Humans I Believe Easy Groups Prove Equal Don't Believe Ethnic Groups

Author:Jim Goad

“There had been questions raised about whether we could ever really unite to work together on an issue, whether we could do it with equal passion and fervor. And it happened during my nomination and I think I forever will be grateful for that love, for that support and for proving those naysayers wrong.”

Thinking Together Passion Support Forever Issues Happened Prove Equal Grateful Raised Working Together Be Grateful Nominations Fervor Naysayers

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.”

Ifs Men Way Wells Country Problem Political Fighting Black Effort Steps Prove Equal Intellectual Harder Solve Racist Mature Integrating Political Systems Contention

Author:Malcolm X

“Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the coming of a Messiah. Until someone proves otherwise, therefore, these stories must be considered nothing more than folk tales consisting in equal parts of legend and wish fulfillment.”

Believe Stories Wanted Wish Records Written Prove Equal Folks Tales Fulfillment Legends Messiah

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.”

Mind Greater Loneliness Prove Equal Achievement Admire Mediocrity Trembling Touchy

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged