Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
BEN STEINYes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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No one will do it for you.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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