Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable. . . and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un tenable, as long as part of the population can vote to force the other part to support it.
Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable
We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the chromosomes. . . . The neo-Darwinian theory of the geneticists is no longer tenable.
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.
