“There is no idea so obscure that someone could not come to regard it as self-evident.”
Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas
Source: The Alienation of Reason (1966), Chapter Seven, Pragmatism and Positivism, p. 156
“A large bomb obscures a lot of evidence.”
Source: The Vastalimi Gambit (2013), Chapter 18
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“Someone helped us a lot with the atomic bomb.”
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) Soviet politician and diplomat
Statement about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg having performed espionage for the Soviet Union, as quoted in The FBI-KGB War : A Special Agent's Story (1995), by Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, p. 306
Context: Someone helped us a lot with the atomic bomb. The intelligence (service) played a huge role. These Rosenbergs suffered in America. It is not excluded that they helped us. But we shouldn't really speak about it, because we might receive this kind of help in the future.
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) American army soldier, security guard, terrorist
Dead Man Talking http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/apr/22/mcveigh.usa, The Observer (April 22, 2001) <br class="br">2000s
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2000s, Interview with Sun-jung Kim (May 2005)
Leon Bertoletti (1971)
Complexes http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2009/03/complexes.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/03/2009
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
As quoted in "Maybe John McCain will bring back 'Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran'" http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/10/maybe-john-mcca.html (9 October 2008),The Los Angeles Times. <br class="br">2000s, 2008
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"
Context: Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality? I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and to evidence. My name, like yours, is truth-seeker. My mission is written in these words of the law: Speak without hatred and without fear; tell that which thou knowest! The work of our race is to build the temple of science, and this science includes man and Nature. Now, truth reveals itself to all; to-day to Newton and Pascal, tomorrow to the herdsman in the valley and the journeyman in the shop. Each one contributes his stone to the edifice; and, his task accomplished, disappears. Eternity precedes us, eternity follows us: between two infinites, of what account is one poor mortal that the century should inquire about him?
Disregard then, reader, my title and my character, and attend only to my arguments.
National Center for Public Policy Research press release, July 26, 2005.
Referring to the initial draft of an Endangered Species Act reform bill.
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 113
Yousef Saanei (1937) Iranian grand ayatollah
As quoted in "Nuclear weapons unholy, Iran says" in SFGate (31 October 2003) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/31/MNGHJ2NFRE1.DTL. <br class="br">2003