Sì perché l'autorità dell'opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le presenti osservazioni spogliano d'autorità i decreti de' passati scrittori, i quali se vedute l'avessero, avrebbono diversamente determinato. For in the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. Besides, the modern observations deprive all former writers of any authority, since if they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge.
Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region.
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority.
What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
