Quotes About Scopes

#1. I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.
[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

John T. Scopes

#2. You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

John T. Scopes

#3. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

Rick Pitino

#4. Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

John T. Scopes

#5. Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial.

Clarence Darrow

#6. A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Jacob M. Appel

#7. It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

Abbie Hoffman

#8. Things have ends (or scopes) and beginnings. To/ know what precedes and what follows will assist yr/ comprehension of process.

Ezra Pound

#9. With endings come new beginnings.

Alexandra Potter

#10. God Almighty is my sacred shelter.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

Ben Hecht

#12. I don't need shoes. I need a night scope. You think they sell night scopes someplace here?

Janet Evanovich

#13. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

#14. The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.

Ben Goldacre

#15. Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A: I never made a calculation
Q: What do you think?
A: I do not think about things I don't think about.
Q: Do you think about things you do think about?
A: Well, sometimes.

Scopes Trial

#16. Spyglasses, as Lipperhey called telescopes, whether they're in the form of spotting scopes, spyplanes, or reconnaissance satellites, are more than simple instruments or tools. They beget infrastructures and geographies.

Trevor Paglen

#17. Step beyond the scopes and limits because a narrow minded person has such boundaries of thinking "I cannot , but I must

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