“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.” IfsWantShouldReasonFactsProblemAcceptingIntellectualConsequenceSuicideDenyCommitNo ReasonFundCivilizedOutlookCivilized SocietyScientific FactsInhumane Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas, most people are afraid to admit that they don't know the answer to some question, and as a consequence they refrain from mentioning the question, even if it is a very natural one. What a pity! As for myself, I enjoy saying 'I do not know'.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldEnjoySidesNaturalAnswersInterestingPaperConsequencePityPapersAlasRemarksRefrainTheorems Book:Oeuvres, Collected Papers: 1985-1998 Source: Oeuvres, Collected Papers: 1985-1998
“Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.” WayShouldJusticeJudgingStandardsConsequenceElectionSenatorsIdeological Author:John McCain
“In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.” ShouldEyeFiveBuildingWallMountainConsequenceBlueDefinedAtmosphereQuantityFar AwayUniformsDensityBuilding Walls Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.” ShouldArtAgeBoysModernConsequenceBotherDelightfulGreat ArtModernismModern ArtMy BoysPundits Author:Anthony Burgess
“Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?” IfsKnowsShouldMomentsSeemsOur LivesExampleConsequenceDeedsThings In LifeUnimportant Author:Isabelle Eberhardt
“When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?” ThinkingMenShouldHumansLawJusticePrinciplesConscienceConsequenceEternityThis LifeContradiction Author:William Wilberforce