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- Mandy Rice-DaviesThe most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way
- Bertrand RussellThe most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
- Bertrand RussellControversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction
- Samuel JohnsonControversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error
- Benjamin RushThe passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
- Freda AdlerA civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
- Robert Maynard HutchinsMost controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
- Tryon Edwards