Quote by Mark Eberhart

“the ultimate standard, by which we determine all disputes, that may arise concerning them, is always derived from experience and observation. Where this experience…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is far easier to figure out if something is fragile than to predict the occurrence of an event that may harm it.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or a philosopher.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Truly solving the problem involves understanding what’s wrong and why it happened, through investigation and understanding—not by spending days or weeks testing different guesses…

— Nat Greene

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“Today, scientists and doctors find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by vast armies of individuals who feel entitled to pass judgment on matters of evidence—an…

— Ben Goldacre

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

— Roger Goodell

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“We can't prove anything in science. But the best that scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they…

— Richard Dawkins

“When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad…

— Lewis N. Roe