“How can you argue with a woman who won't?”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Richard Ames; chapter 19, p. 235
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“How can you argue with a woman who won't?”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Richard Ames; chapter 19, p. 235
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 15
“Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.”
Duane Gish (1921–2013) American biochemist
Creation, Evolution, and Public Education
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (1976), "Is it Simple to be a Marxist in Philosophy?"
A - F, Louis Althusser
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
(...) De nouvelles connaissances conduisent à reconnaître dans la théorie de l'évolution plus qu'une hypothèse. Il est en effet remarquable que cette théorie se soit progressivement imposée à l'esprit des chercheurs, à la suite d'une série de découvertes faites dans diverses disciplines du savoir. La convergence, nullement recherchée ou provoquée, des résultats de travaux menés indépendamment les uns des autres, constitue par elle même un argument significatif en faveur de cette théorie. <br class="br">early news reports mistranslated the French phrase plus qu'une hypothèse as "more than one hypothesis". http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/LifeScience/PhysicalAnthropology/EvolutionFact/Evolution/Evolution.htm <br class="br">Message to the participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 22 October 1996 <br class="br">Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/pont_messages/1996/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_19961022_evoluzione_fr.html (French)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Memo (May 30, 1942) to the Chief of Combined Operations on the design of floating piers (which later became Mulberry Harbours) for use on landing beaches; in The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952) Chapter 4 (Westward Ho! Synthetic Harbours).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“If your woman is a ghost, she doesn't know it. Neither will you.”
William Gibson book Neuromancer
Neuromancer (1984)
Context: The lane to the land of the dead. Where you are, my friend. Marie-France, my lady, she prepared this road, but her lord choked her off before I could read the book of her days. Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead. But no, my friend," and the boy did a little dance, brown feet printing the sand, "I am the dead, and their land." He laughed. A gull cried, "Stay. If your woman is a ghost, she doesn't know it. Neither will you."
Charles Perrow (1925–2019) American sociologist
Source: 1970s, Complex organizations, 1972, p. 220