Evidence Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evidence Faith Science Skepticism
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. ('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)” — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan 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 always be… — Tabetha S. Boyajian Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... - They are searching evidence to PIN YOU.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else,… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
