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Evidence Quotes by Carol Tavris
- Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
- During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying…
- As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
- The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence…
- Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it…
More Evidence Quotes
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence. — Lance Armstrong
- Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became… — Michele Bachmann
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you… — Clive Barker
- The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared… — Gary Bauer
- My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — Martha Beck
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. — Ambrose Bierce
- There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings
- Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I… — Tony Blair