Claims Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace Download Open image “The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.” — Pierre-Simon Laplace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Claims Evidence Extraordinary Strangeness Weight
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“...what has the weight of evidence to one person does not necessarily have the weight of evidence to another.” — Mitch Glaser Copy Share Image
“An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. ('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)” — Marcello Truzzi 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
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères. ( Man follows only phantoms .) { His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan .}” — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}” — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image