Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image ““entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.”” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.” — Linda Elder Richard Paul Copy Share Image
“Facing issues of this magnitude, it's unreasonable to think that anyone comes to the investigation with no personal hopes or preexisting beliefs. However,” — Gary R. Habermas Copy Share Image
“the weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe” — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“a skeptic's mantra is "extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
“the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The real trouble begins when confirmation bias distorts your active pursuit of facts.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“When one has suspected a thing for weeks, why is being confronted with stark evidence so much worse?” — Teresa Grant Copy Share Image
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
