Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes.… — Michael A. Stackpole Copy Share Image
“Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the world is attuned to its… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
After investigating the UFO phenomenon all over the world, after studying thousands of pages of released government documents, and interviewing eyewitnesses and… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory,… — Joanne Nova Copy Share Image
The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not. Instead of hazy, sinuous features that we could only guess were… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls.… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
We often say that our science is objective and accurate, but we don't often say that our science is incomplete - that… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
Jayalalithaa was disqualified from contesting elections because of the Tansi case. I was the complainant. The public prosecutor conducted the case, but… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
They look at me and say how come you're winning? You came back from the dead three years ago, and you're already… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes… — Peter Bart Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let's talk about after-school programs generally. They're supposed to be educational programs, right? And that's what they're supposed to do; they're supposed… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the… — Max Born Copy Share Image
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image