Claims Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

— Carl Sagan

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens

“An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. ('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)”

— Marcello Truzzi

That the existence of false evidence is erased when the error is never exposed to the truth

— Mak_786

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

— Carl Sagan

The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“But reason... tells us that merely with repetition the extraordinary becomes ordinary, and only briefly abandoned, what had once passed for a common and…

— Carlos Fuentes