470 Quotes About Tests

  • Author Stephen Jay Gould
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    Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.

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  • Author Sunil Gavaskar
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    Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

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  • Author Thom Gunn
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    I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

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  • Author Argus Hamilton
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    The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose.

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  • Author Benjamin Harrison
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    I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

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  • Author Christopher Hitchens
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    I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

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  • Author Eric Hoffer
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    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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