Claims Quotes - Page 10

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.

When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."

If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.

All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear.

We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.