“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.” IfsHumansWellsSometimesWould BeHumanityNextAnimalLevelsAttitudeSubjectsStudentsDisciplineArguingConventionalColleaguesLaddersNext LevelBiologistHaughty Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?” PeopleMenFoundSubjectsArgumentArguingWisest Book:At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi
“The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.” ThinkingMenWritingBookMatterFactsAtheismSubjectsDenyArguingControversySubject Matter Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our minds; we're on our way to explaining a large part of it. I'll accept an answer provided only by such means as obtaining and exploring, analyzing and arguing over the evidence - not because of a scribe's myopic view of the subject written 500 years before the birth of Christ!” WayYearsMindHumansMeanChristNaturalAnswersViewsDealsAcceptingWrittenAtheismSubjectsBirthEvidenceSpeciesPositive AtheismArguingExploringExplainingAnalyzingObtainingNatural ScienceMyopicScribes Author:E. O. Wilson
“The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.” MeanSubjectsConvictionArguingDebateToleranceRationalArena Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.” KindLiteratureInterestingExistenceStudySubjectsArgumentAccountsArguingTheologyProfessorsBiblicalInteresting ThingsTheologicalGod ExistsExistence Of God Author:Richard Dawkins
“Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.” IfsWorldFeelsLittlesMadeImportantMatterStatesHandsEnjoyUnderstandingTalkingSubjectsMusic IsCurrentsArguingPursuitAccomplishedSubject MatterWorld Politics Author:John Mayer
“Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.” WayMadeAbleLostCasesSacrificeLandSubjectsHavensCitizensBattleRacismArguingMilesDiscriminationOppressionAfrican AmericanNativeMapsNative AmericanSpectrumAmerican CitizensMiles AwayDiscrimination And Racism Author:Nelson Antonio Denis
“It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.” PeopleThinkingPhilosophyProgressSubjectsArguingBarsDrunkMetaphysicsDrunk People Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson