I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEINThe scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Yes, 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.
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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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Science leads you to killing people.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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