Evidence Quote by Penelope Fitzgerald Download Open image “If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.” — Penelope Fitzgerald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evidence Gossip Science Scientist
The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
Researchers have discovered that people will believe anything that you tell them researchers have discovered... — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
It's fun to gossip and stuff. But once it's millions of people - the scale of that, I think, is more damaging to the… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“The most important scientific concept is that an assertion is often an empirical question, settled by collecting evidence. The plural of anecdote is not… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true. — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You can borrow my Blackbird, if you like,' said Ben. This was his new fountain pen, which troubled him. It was guaranteed not to… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences. — Penelope Fitzgerald 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
