Whenever counterterrorism professionals see punditry and media make grand pronunciations on terrorism that defy all demonstrable evidence, an unrepeatable oath is usually… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Wow," Liv said, when I dropped the mallet back into the drawer. "That looked like fun. I call dibs on the next… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart… — Judith Stone Copy Share Image
Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and… — Norman Dodd Copy Share Image
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
Evidence shows that even now, when it is illegal for employers to pocket tips, many still do. Research on workers in three… — Heidi Shierholz Copy Share Image
[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets,… — Simon Norfolk Copy Share Image
That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“..."science" as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence. — Willie Soon Copy Share Image
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The fact that it is a hypothesis specially uncongenial to the emotions of this investigator or that, is neither here nor there.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie… — Hosea Ballou 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
There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they… — William James Copy Share Image
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image