A Quote by Eugenie Scott

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

Eugenie Scott

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Because Controversial Education Evolution Field Highly Public Public Education Science Sphere

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Eugenie Scott
American - Anthropologist
Born: October 24, 1945

I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

M.I.A.

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

Jurgen Habermas

Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it's controversial or perceived as political.

Vivek Murthy

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Morrissey

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Avigdor Lieberman

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Steven Morrissey

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

Caroline Lucas

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

Rowan Williams

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

Andrew Weil

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

Martina Navratilova

women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or the success of the feminist movement, but rather as a profound evolutionary response to a pervasive cultural crisis. Feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the private domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive.

Sally Helgesen

Controversial issues are always more interesting but I don't create material about a subject I have opinion on just because it's controversial. The most fun is having a point of view that the audience is generally against and presenting an argument that challenges their thinking.

Doug Stanhope

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a way that a politician can't because they'll lose their constituency.

Mark Foster

We knew that 'Naked Attraction' was going to be controversial but as long as youre being controversial for the right reasons, I have absolutely no problem with it.