#consensus

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock. ↗

— Gale Norton

#agree #birds #consensus #difficult #easier

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. ↗

— David Douglass

#consensus #had #history #indeed #scientific

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

#approach #consensus #developing #discussion #effort

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#apparently #being #between #broad #changed

Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#comedy #consensus #general #preferred #softer

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#consensus #drives #i #into #look

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#conference #connects #consensus #continue #cosmopolitan

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. ↗

— John W. Snow

#basis #build #consensus #i #i think

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#broad #congress #consensus #could #count

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#britain #consensus #economic #essentially #labour