The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.
What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psy...
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wr...
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view and assemble evidence from many different vantage points. Biological evidence in humans and in animals, toxicologic evidence, how does ...
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
The Bible is a collection of stories and myths based on hearsay transmitted from generation to generation and which were recorded by many (40 +) different authors during a period spanning possibly 1,600 or more years. The ‘evidence’ then is on...
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
