As quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IX, Sec. 51
“Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Protagoras, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861) American politician
Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois (1 May 1861)
1860s
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Aurea Dicta XX, p. 8.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)
“Every number is at once half the sum of the two on either side of itself…”
Nicomachus (60–120) Ancient Greek mathematician
Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)
“There are two sides to every story and the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.”
Paul J. Alessi (1968) Actor / Producer
Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/10696117836382928/
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
0 min 45 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue [Episode 2]
Context: All my life, I've wondered about life beyond the earth. On those countless other planets that we think circle other suns, is there also life? Might the beings of other worlds resemble us, or would they be astonishingly different? What would they be made of? In the vast Milky Way galaxy, how common is what we call life? The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Variant: There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.
Source: Styxx
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Linus' blog: Black and white, 2008-11-02, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-11-02 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white.html, <br class="br">2000s, 2008
