Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
Shhhh...right now, all around you, outside your door, down the street, and in every corner of YOUR world... there's evidence of a… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had their portraits painted - but there… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We… — Robin Hanson Copy Share Image
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image