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No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.


Lyman Beecher

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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
LYMAN BEECHER Science defies Religion, Religion defines Politics.
GAGONDEEP SINGH SRAI Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEY No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKE [E.M.M.’s contract] has been renewed every year without controversy,
CHRIS WELCH Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Cert...
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DEYTH BANGER Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdi...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy...
HENRY EYRING Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and y...
MAHATMA GANDHI The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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EUGENE IONESCO There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
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ROBERT WINSTON We place no reliance on virgin or pidgeon.Our method is science, our aim is religion.
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JAMES MARTINEAU No decision has been made. No decision has been made.
SARA LEWIS A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.
HARRY S TRUMAN Religion has been in and out of American politics for nearly our whole history. Right now the conser...
DOUGLAS LAYCOCK Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
VLADIMIR PUTIN The township has gone overboard in order to avoid controversy and move the matter along, so no claim...
LAWRENCE SAGER Any time you do anything that has to do with religion you're going to have some controversy.
JACK KENNY Politics without principles,Education without character,Science without humanity,and Commerce withou...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religi...
FRANK HERBERT No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali...
GEORGE ORWELL There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Seven sins of life: Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Wealth without work. Educ...
MAHATMA GANDHI The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character...
MAHATMA GANDHI One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
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MARK TWAIN The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics...
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FRANK HERBERT These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, w...
ANTHONY DE MELLO These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, w...
ANTHONY MELLO These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, w...
ANTHONY DE MELLO Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
MAHATMA GANDHI My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.
MAHATMA GANDHI I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many differ...
LILY TOMLIN ​A sage sees no conflict between Science & Religion.
ABHIJIT NASKAR There can be no truce between science and religion.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE Love has no race, creed, nationality or religion.
VERNEST HINES LIKKEL “The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without charac...
MAHATMA GANDHI Religion has no work in justifying the man-made imaginations, hallucinations and delusions of the wo...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just...
IAN STEWART We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has pro...
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE But there's no ethical, social or political controversy
ADAM KATZ No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess
ISAAC NEWTON No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
ISAAC NEWTON Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without pr...
GARY ZUKAV Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without pr...
GARY ZUKAV The profit that can be made from religion has been the downfall of many people.
RIAAN VAN WYK Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
G. W. F. HEGEL Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
HEBBEL Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century....
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century....
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE This group has common origins in terms of culture, religion, geography and politics. Their influence...
BORIS KOSSOY Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character mu...
LYMAN BEECHER Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character mu...
LYMAN BEECHER Eloquence is logic on fire.
LYMAN BEECHER Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
LYMAN BEECHER Ghandi's seven sins:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without c...
MAHATMA GHANDI Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equale...
TONY CAMPOLO Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life ha...
RICK WARREN St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the ...
WILLIAM HENRY DANFORTH A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
P.D. OUSPENSKY Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage...
VINOD KHOSLA No one here has gone without medication or been in jeopardy of going without medication. I think it ...
LARRY STEPHENS Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH No decision has been made yet. At this point, the group is more or less in a dormant stage.
DAN HOPKINS No religion, no political party, no organization, movement or philosophy has a monopoly on truth.
E.R. ROCK Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial...
NEIL POSTMAN It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
ISAAC ASIMOV Science is a lie in day-light, with a lot witnesses. Religion is a truth in darkness, without any ne...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS HUXLEY ... As Weber suggests, once science is employed to justify and enact ideal values, especially throug...
NICHOLAS GANE Without alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLER In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will ...
WILLIAM BOOTH We made a pact that, No. 1: no politics.
DON LOGAN Terrorism has no religion, terrorists have no religion and they are friends of no religion,
MANMOHAN SINGH But no concrete progress has been made in the case.
AJAY KUMAR We have no comment about the person who has been arrested or our employee. We are very pleased an ar...
TIM HEALY My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.
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HENRY WARD BEECHER God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the hous...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machiner...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
HENRY WARD BEECHER He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this ru...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...
HENRY WARD BEECHER In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival...
HENRY WARD BEECHER See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be al...
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