“The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.” PeopleCareInterestSinSecretVirtueTakenEvidenceInspiredVicesGossipConsolationNeighbourMaliceUntrueVerify Book:On Education Source: On Education
“I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.” IfsMindSometimesReasonCareKnowingAtheismEvidenceScientistPassionateI CareCantImpatientCharlatansHumbug Author:Richard Dawkins
“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."” PeopleIfsWayMayLittlesCountryFactsBodyMightCarePrinciplesFindingsEvidenceConsequenceLet MeLaysEnormousTreatedI CareTemptedAdministrativeAdministrators Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.” HumansHappensCareFeltEvidenceDespiteOnenessConsiderationFloodHurricanesEarthquakesKinshipTornadoesEruptionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Alan Lightman