Cocktail Quotes (2 quotes)
I hereby bequeath to the Bide-a-Wee Home all people who have statistics to prove that a human
Is nothing but a combination of iron and water and potash and albumen.
That may very well be the truth
But it’s just like saying that a cocktail is nothing but ice and gin and vermouth.
Is nothing but a combination of iron and water and potash and albumen.
That may very well be the truth
But it’s just like saying that a cocktail is nothing but ice and gin and vermouth.
From 'Lines in Dispraise of Dispraise', Hard Lines (1931), 40.
I’ll deal with the most difficult problem first. Creation ex nihilo. The adipose argument is that “God did it.” That of course is the lazy man’s elixir. Sort of a cocktail made up of a swig of credulity and a teaspoon full of unwillingness to think. In short, it’s an explanation that avoids explanation.
From transcript of debate (Apr 1998) with William Lane Craig at the Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 'What is the evidence for/against the existence of God?' on reasonablefaith.org website.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
