#aim

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#charge #claim #creationist #critics #evolution

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#democratic #democratic party #opportunity #party #progressives

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#claim #dictatorships #does #every #name

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#always #else #getting #never #quite

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#better #claim #compromise #effort #evolution

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had. ↗

— David Guterson

#awards #critical #had #how #many

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#anything #claim #couple #course #dna

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! ↗

— William Hague

#i #once #really #someone

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#aim #cured #either #equally #fire

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#counts #days #hour #i #i think