Famous quotes containing the words american, scientific, affiliation and/or controversy:
“The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellowone who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal womanAstarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strengthand strength to enhance affiliation.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)
“And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.”
—Thomas Hobbes (15791688)