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“The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.”

Humans Made Life Is Social Effort Theory Ought Judgment Intellectual Human Life Rejection Rejects Logical Worth Living Life Is Worth Living Social Theory

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.”

Children Stories School Taught Theory Evolution Ten Fairs Criticism Billions Fairy Rejects Children Love Creationism Theory Of Evolution Whimsical Credence Fairy Stories

Author:Charlie Brooker

“It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.”

“But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.”

Accepting Practice Theory Rejects Specialization

Book:Experimental Medicine

Source: Experimental Medicine

“Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object”

Different Self Social Acting Environment Objects Theory Perspective Oneself Agents Rejects Conception Shifting Transforming Cognitive Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“CANNOT BELIEVE BOTH GOSPEL AND EVOLUTION. I say most emphatically, you cannot believe in this theory of the origin of man, and at the same time accept the plan of salvation as set forth by the Lord our God. You must choose the one and reject the other, for they are in direct conflict and there is a gulf separating them which is so great that it cannot be bridged, no matter how much one may try to do so.”

Men Trying Believe May Matter Accepting Lord Plans Theory Evolution Conflict Direct Salvation Rejects Separating Plan Of Salvation Origin Of Man

Book:Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings

Source: Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings

“I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.”

Humans Theory Limits Oil Rejects Technological Ingenuity Peak Oil

Author:Robert P. Murphy

“So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.”

Years Wells Looks Today Courses Doubt Psychology Position Theory Available No Doubt Comparison Rejects Primitive Epistemology

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.”

“It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.”

“The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.”

Ifs May Theory Mass Lays Reasonable Rejects Appetite Restriction

Author:Ellen G. White