In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.
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Related Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting s... KIP THORNE It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part ... SALMAN RUSHDIE Yes, thought the Count, the world does spin. In fact, it spins on its axis even as it revolves aroun... AMOR TOWLES We argued that until we were blue in the face. HAROLD MCLEAN The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to ... ALAN TURING I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such argume... ALAN TURING That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown. UNKNOWN Incompetence,” he argued, “knows no barrier of time or place. LAURENCE J. PETER The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY We argued to the judge that miracles like this are wonderful, but they do come with a price. BENJAMIN CRUMP The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER It could be argued he was no more president than Zachary Taylor that day. DAVID MIKKELSON Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines wha... GLEN COOK We haven't argued about much. We found we have a fair amount of common ground. TOM DOAK Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that whe... DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequ... VERNOR VINGE I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a pal... ABRAM KARDINER When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when ask... ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA It could be argued that there is an element of entertainment in every pie, as every pie is inherentl... JANET CLARKSON the jury will infer a defense that isn't argued. LAURIE LEVENSON We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t... CHIEF SEATTLE Guns rights can be argued in the same manner as abortion except guns can be used to protect children... TROY J. GAINEY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Some stood up for the prince, declaring that he would set things to right, while others argued that ... LINDSEY RENEE BACKEN I kind of knew the reasons why we took that dip and I felt we could get ourselves out of it. As much... MIKE HOLMGREN Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced wi... HEYWOOD SANDERS One would have argued that the reduction in supply would have made the bidding stronger. JOHN LONSKI When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is love... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for res... CARL SAGAN The statistics can't be argued with; the statistics are clear. JAMES KEMP Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year. GEORGE SHEEHAN Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.... ROBERT ZOELLICK Just when you think you're having a scene without Simon, he drops in to remind you that everyone els... RAINBOW ROWELL Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 ... HELEN SHARMAN Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from natur... LEWIS THOMAS We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full auth... HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When all of us are united on an issue, then one of two things has happened. Either the earth has spu... BRENT BOZELL I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six da... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI When there is gambling, this is what we expect him to do when he is making payouts on poker machines... BRENDAN CONWAY Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as e... DON MARQUIS I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense ... RICHARD NELSON BOLLES When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the ... PARACELSUS When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the ... PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the ... PHILIPUS AUREOLUS When he spins, he is very fast. He knows where he is in the air. He twists better than any diver I h... GARY GUADAGNINO [Edwards was set to interview Simon on April 25 when NPR execs abruptly informed Simon that he had t... BOB EDWARDS We have consistently argued that there is little likelihood of a rate move over the next 12 months, BILL EVANS There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b... THOMAS H. HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets mar... ROBERT FROST Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. TASLIMA NASRIN And when affliction touches a man, he calls on Us, whether lying on his side or sitting or standing;... QURAN The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as ... C.S. LEWIS Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. MALCOLM DE CHAZAL When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', wh... TERRY A O'NEAL Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic ... ANTHONY MARRA It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it
is useless. DECIMUS LABERIUS We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's a mix of experiences that I think keeps me in touch with the common man. I'm not someone who's ... MEL MARTINEZ I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any se... RICHARD NELSON BOLLES [District Attorney Paul Morrison argued that jurors are only required to consider the mitigating fac... PAUL MORRISON Philip insisted it would be wrong for him to break down and be so emotional. But, of course, when we... BENNETT MILLER With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirte... FRANCISCO GOYA I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made. ALAN PARKER Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adul... PAUL RUDD I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as p... EDITH STARRETT GREEN They say that animals are incapable of feelings and reasoning. This is false. No living thing on ear... SUZY KASSEM When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to inv... XUN KUANG All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tre... DONALD JOHANSON Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do. RADHANATH SWAMI He's a special back. When he gets a lane, he's gone. He makes that first guy miss and spins out of t... KEVIN GHEE You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ... RICHARD CURTIS When I got the call about the accident, I thought it was a joke, ... I argued with the paramedic who... DICK GROVE I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- tha... DAVID BOIES It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does ... CRISS JAMI Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain on... THOMAS WOLFE I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director. CHARLES DURNING 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON He was twice as old as when they sentenced him to die, and he certainly wasn't the same person that ... CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of ... THOMAS CARLYLE Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of ... THOMAS CARLYLE A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. ... LAWRENCE LESSIG In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he ... MARGERY ALLINGHAM We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ... WALLACE SHAWN [Darwin acknowledged in his autobiography that as a young man he was] charmed and convinced ... The ... WILLIAM PALEY Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he ha... GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the wo... MARSHALL MCLUHAN The industry has argued for years that consumers don't care about fuel economy. I think they are fin... JASON MARK
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