I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEINIf you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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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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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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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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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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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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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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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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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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