I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEINI cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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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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Science leads you to killing people.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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