Her favorite stepping-aside technique was to lay out a dizzying mountain of complex steps and then pronounce the conclusion self-evident. Excuse me? Things that are self-evident don't need you or the presentation anyway. Relying only on logic, on wha...
Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering a...
It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to t...
The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof. To know something for certain there must be proof. To hold to a belief there must be evidence. Until then, the only actual reasona...
Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks, evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality, and meaning that they just can’t accept it no matter how much evidence they see. It’s no...
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for...
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.
Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.
The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.
While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
