#theo

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #black #cat #cellar #dark

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#belly #laugh #man #theology

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#anonymous #bishop #determine #directly #local

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#field #mechanics #problem #quantum #quantum mechanics

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#explain #inadequate #inorganic #manifestation #origin

We completely reject the theory of evolution. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#evolution #reject #theory

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me. ↗

— Charles Fort

#cells #compose #god #i #i am

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#both #developed #directions #experimental #frontier

Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice; they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. That view is nonremorseful and not rehabilitative. It may also be true. It seems to me that we have here a convergence between the rapists's view of what he has done and the victim's perspective on what was done to her. That is, for both, their ordinary experiences of heterosexual intercourse and the act of rape have something in common. Now this gets us into immense trouble, because that's exactly how judges and juries see it who refuse to convict men accused of rape. A rape victim has to prove that it was not intercourse. She has to show that there was force and that she resisted, because if there was sex, consent is inferred. Finders of fact look for "more force than usual during the preliminaries". Rape is defined by distinction from intercourse - not nonviolence, intercourse. They ask, does this event look more like fucking or like rape? But what is their standard for sex, and is this question asked from the women's point of view? The level of force is not adjudicated at her point of violation; it is adjudicated at the standard for the normal level of force. Who sets this standard? ↗

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

#feminist-theory #intercourse #law #patriarchy #piv

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. ↗

— Asa Gray

#cause #confesses #difficulties #everything #find