“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.” Life IsChanceStepsImagineWindArgumentStructureComplexesCome UpAriseDiscussionManifestationImagine ThatImprobableLikelihoodBiologistBoeingAssemblingSingle StepWind BlowingJunkyard Author:John Maynard Smith
“Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.” WritingImportantSometimesHelpingNightPartyImagineImpossibleConversationLateArgumentHelp MeBottlesWorth ItWhat's ImportantLate Night Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation.” ThinkingWantGivingI CanIndividualLevelsCreativityImagineArgumentLimitation Author:Todd May
“As you can imagine, I have a deeply personal interest in people learning to at least be tolerant of homosexuals. My life depends on it. And as I wish to be left alone, I realize it is not in my interest to interfere with how other people choose to lead their lives, or raise their children. All totalitarian arguments that restrict people's freedom have been based in the "it's best for everyone" framework.” PeopleChildrenHas BeensLeftWishInterestRealizingImagineDependsArgumentRaisesInterfereHomosexualFrameworkLeft AlonePersonal Interest Book:The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values Source: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
“If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.” IfsYearsImagineFitSucceedArgument Author:Cass Sunstein