Quotes of: Insufficient-evidence Keyword

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have p...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

..."science" as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical. This means that scientists rely on experiments, observations and calculations to develop theories and test them. On the o...

An Easy-to-Understand Guide for Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that an angel told him so, I have a right to believe them or not: s...

The Age of Reason

A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with problems "obviously" required state intervention. Government is depicted as acting ...

Knowledge And Decisions

These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. 'Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.' ... If mathematics is...

Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science

From the beginning, man could look up at a vast universe dotted by innumerable stars to find every evidence that he was nothing. This evidence has only grown stronger as science and technology record an expanse of galaxies filled with planetary solar...

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically excludes its existence will be susceptible to being trapped in an endless chase for materialistic ca...

Donald L. Ewert

Why do we not accept ESP as a psychological fact? Rhine has offered enough evidence to have convinced us on almost any other issue... Personally, I do not accept ESP for a moment, because it does not make sense. My external criteria, both of physics ...

Life

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

Forged: Writing in the Name of God

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

The Knowledge of the Holy

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Samuel Johnson

The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.

Said Nursi

Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.

Toba Beta

The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.

Tim Kreider

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

Joseph Wambaugh

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

Kato Kaelin

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Leonard Peikoff

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

Natalie Jeremijenko