Quotes about Consensus

Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Truth is truth. If a thousand people believe something foolish, it is still foolish! Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion. I have found that it is better to be alone and acting upon the truth in my heart than to follow a gaggle of silly geese doomed to mediocrity.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

They shall see eye to eye.

When two oxen are yoked together, they must pull in the same direction, Marcus. If one pulls to the right, and the other to the left, what happens?

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.