I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEINCould 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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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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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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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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