We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism -… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
If you are among those who believe that the U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world - despite overwhelming evidence… — Wendell Potter Copy Share Image
To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our… — Harlow Shapley Copy Share Image
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
As for the claim that drone 'pilots' are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military's own… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use. — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail.… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was… — Benjamin Boukpeti Copy Share Image
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. — Rosario Castellanos Copy Share Image
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
