Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.

That said ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

You know there was a time just before I started to study physical science when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

According to materialistic science any memory requires a material substrate such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Further the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Informed by our sad experience of history we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic spiritual and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others He altogether ceases to be worshipped since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.

I'm a scientist not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable generous tolerant and respectful.

Short fiction is the medium I love the most because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that though lacking a novel's length satisfies the reader.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

We must think differently look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts new definitions.