Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from George F. Will

George F. Will US editor, commentator, & columnist (1941 - )


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- We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

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- Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George F. Will - Statecraft as Soulcraft
- Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

George F. Will - Newsweek, July 4, 2005
- The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school?s curriculum.

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- We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

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- Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.