Quotes about Debate

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

Good controversy should not be a quarrel about assumptions

RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.

Evolution is a religion; it is not science!