#statement

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#crude #extinguish #humor #knowledge #known

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#american #american citizens #call #censors #citizens

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#arena #driver #governor #i #immigrants

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact

I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#fashion #fashion statement #heels #i #statement

Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before. ↗

— John Berendt

#before #including #nothing #said #statement

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#asks #continue #guided #i #kennedy

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. ↗

— Karl Popper

#does #far #must #reality #scientific

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#changed #ever #figure #figure skating #first