A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
I am not a very social person and have a few friends who have been with me since school and college. I hate going to parties and events and would rather sit at home and watch TV. Parties are the place where controversies happen.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
I am used to controversies.