Scholarly – Page 3

She couldn’t picture anyone

She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish…Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic. Regina Doman

Before the birth of

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad … Read more

Why should self-indulgent nonsense

Why should self-indulgent nonsense – whatever its professed political orientation – be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement? Alan Sokal

If those who do

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. Al-Ghazali

The scholarly authorities on

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians. Randall Munroe

Many times I heard

Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues ‘I do not know.’ Abu Dawood

It is fashionable in

It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.
R. C. Sproul

The Federalist Society is

The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation’s law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.
Ronald Reagan