In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle…

“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure…

— Will Durant

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires…

— Anonymous

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the evidence justifying…

— Crispin Blunt

Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?

— Prince Ea

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech…

— John Paul Stevens

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

— Carl Sagan

Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief…

— Scott Clifton

“the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’.”

— Gordon Corera

From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use…

— Jacques Chirac

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

— Michael Ben-Ari

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Is it necessary to recall that the earth is not infinite, and that our civilization is close to having invaded all of it? The…

— Gabriel Tarde