One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was… — David Kay Copy Share Image
Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself… — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable… — Edzard Ernst Copy Share Image
There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of… — Michael Isikoff Copy Share Image
I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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 continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and it is my job, my responsibility, as an astronomer to remind people that alien hypotheses should… — Tabetha S. Boyajian 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
There's enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
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