“We are alive and we resonate with idea of life elsewhere, but only careful accumulation and assessment of the evidence can tell… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important. — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
The problems come when it's time to put our faith in things other than the Lord. There's no doubt that other people… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have… — Larry David Copy Share Image
People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is… — Donald Rumsfeld 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
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image