I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them and I say to myself There's one more argument for birth control.

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.