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It's generally felt that there is something to be said for letting people speak for themselves. Here at Butterflies and Wheels, we managed to hold on to this thought for long enough to put together a quotations section. We've divided up the quotes in terms of what is undoubtedly a crude binary opposition - the antagonists and protagonists in the various debates.

With A Twist

Andrew Ross

Anthony DeCurtis

Azfar Hussain

Barbara Bush

Bruce Robbins

Bruno Latour

Cardinal Ratzinger

Carolyn Merchant

David Bloor

David Greven

David Singleton

Donna Haraway

Edward Said

Frederique Apffel Marglin

George Levine

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Lacan

Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi

Judith Butler

Leonard Shlain

Luce Irigaray

Mark Featherstone

Martha Marinara

Matthew James

Michel Callon and Bruno Latour

Mitchel Cohen

N. Katherine Hayles

Paul Forman

Paul Virilio

Per Solvang

Peter Brooker

Peter Elmer

Philip Lenard

Richard Lewontin, Leon Kamin and Steven Rose

Robert J. Wallis and Jenny Blain

Roland Barthes

Sandra Harding

Spokesman for UK Dept. of Education and Skills

Stanley Aronowitz

Steve Fuller

Steven Best

Steven Rose

The Muslim Association of Britain

Toyah Wilcox

Ziauddin Sardar

Straight Up

Alan Sokal

Alexander Pope

Amartya Sen

Carl Sagan

Chris Mooney

Christopher Hitchens

Daniel Dennett

Daphne Patai

David Hume

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Fareed Zakaria

Frederick Crews

Geoffrey A. Clark

James Shapiro

Jeremy Stangroom

John Gribbin

John Stuart Mill

Katha Pollitt

Kenan Malik

Larry Laudan

Latha Menon

Margaret Talbot

Martha Nussbaum

Meera Nanda

Michael Frayn

Michael Ignatieff

Morris Dickstein

Noel Malcolm

Noretta Koertge

Rabindranath Tagore

Randall Jarrell

Richard Evans

Richard J. Evans

Robert Davis

Roger Scruton

Russell Jacoby

Simon Blackburn

Stanley Fish

Stephen Salkever and Michael Nylan

Steven Weinberg

Susan Haack

Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

Terry Eagleton

Thomas Kuhn

Todd Gitlin

William Hazlitt

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