“If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.” IfsCommunityViewsSeriousAuthorityBehaviorHappeningsOrdinaryScientistFundamentalsDisturbingBaltimore Book:Challenges Source: Challenges
“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.” WritingLooksRealSeemsHouseRoomsViewsSubjectsSeriousSmall RoomsRoom With A ViewSerious Subjects Author:Peter York
“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.” I CanSidesMy OwnViewsCareersSeriousCircumstancesMajorsIntellectualCommitmentTraditionBaseballAccidentsBackgroundsFortunateFeaturesMentalityEasternDestinedLifelongCapriciousOdysseyContingencyFamily Tradition Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.” WorldMayProblemSeemsTurnsRoomsViewsStudySeriousCivilizationSolutionsUniversalInstitutionsFinalsContemptAdoptionWorld ProblemsMyopia Author:George F. Kennan
“Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.” FeelsWellsDoneMotivationalGivenWorkViewsHalfSeriousHabitDisciplinePoliticianAppreciateDearConvictionPoint Of ViewSurrenderSatisfiedOpponentsSeriousnessUndoneThoroughTolerationMotivational WorkLearn To AppreciateThoroughnessWhatever Works Author:Syama Prasad Mukherjee
“Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.” GivingPersonsImportantSelfSometimesPoliticalSocialVoiceResultsViewsDemocracySeriousPressureMajoritySilentIncludingObstaclesCensorshipPolitical CorrectnessHeedCorrectnessIntimidationSocial PressureSelf CensorshipSilent Majority Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.” MenWayWellsLittlesFightingEnergyViewsEventsSeriousHairBehaviorHarmPoint Of ViewTeethInjuryEfficientProtectedThreateningDisputesApesClawsSurplusCanineUnproductiveSnarling Book:2001: A Space Odyssey Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey
“I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.” IfsPhilosophyHelpingSocialViewsStudyModernPolicySeriousIgnorantProgressiveRhetoricSocial StudiesLeftists Author:Mario Bunge
“Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.” PhilosophyPurposeViewsSubjectsSeriousRegardPoint Of ViewPleasantries Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?” IfsWritingYearsBelieveLongI CanWarAgeStuffViewsWrittenHonestFieldsSeriousInternetStandingHolesBeing HonestThese DaysGenreFlamesSignificanceCategoriesSci FiEstablishmentMainstreamShelvesBricksTagFadingPigeonsBookshopsMortarBricks And Mortar Author:Charles Stross
“Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.” PeopleKindGuyInterestingViewsSeriousStartingPoint Of ViewTrafficScreenwritersGreat Gifts Author:Stephen Gaghan
“I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.” IfsMadeWarViewsSeriousErrorsIraqBarackTroopsSkepticalIraq WarWithdrawing Author:Garry Kasparov
“I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.” ImportantViewsMissingSeriousTradeErrorsPoint Of View Author:William Eckhardt
“I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience.” ViewsSeriousVariousPoint Of ViewConventionsFederalistCourteous Author:Sanford Levinson
“Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.” MenHumansWellsEndsFeelingsChristianCertainHateSinViewsExistenceAttitudeDivineSeriousExpressionDespairUltimateMurderSeparationLustCommandTraditionalBoredomDispositionForbiddenViciousAdulteryHuman Existence Author:Mortimer Adler
“For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.” WayWritingTryingMatterViewsSubjectsSeriousPoint Of ViewComic Author:Julie Davis
“Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.” ThinkingWorldMayUseGovernmentChallengesViewsBrainInformationSeriousHugeInvolvedIndependentFinancialPopulationProfitCorporationsFederal GovernmentConfusingCautionDiscomfortBrainwashedIndependent ThoughtThink For YourselfInformation Is Power Author:Timothy Leary
“In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentViewsAttentionGroupsCrimeSeriousConnectionsWeightThreatSellingOrganizedFundMassiveVolumeAsiaLinkedAsianNeed A ChangeFacilitateMilitiaIvoryTacklingOrganized CrimePoaching Author:Allen Crawford
“There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health that can be associated with it. There may be as well increases in problems with their memory. And all of those things are not as sexy and don't demand as much attention as cancer, but they can be very, very important from a public health point of view.” PeopleWellsMayImportantUseProblemMemoriesSleepViewsAttentionSeriousDemandConsequenceWeightIncreaseCancerSexyPoint Of ViewDisorderPublic HealthCellphone Author:Devra Davis
“I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.” RealViewsSeriousClintonCatholicismAssetsTickets Author:Tim Kaine
“[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.” PersonsMadeViewsInfluenceCenturyParticularSeriousEnormousUsaThinkerTheologicalNineteenth CenturyDeterminism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.” StatesUnitedViewsUnited StatesSeriousComfortableOrganizationTerroristIslamicTurkeysIslamic State Author:Vijay Prashad