“I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.” PersonsLanguageDevelopmentEvidenceDefinitionsMakersDictionary Author:William Stafford
“The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.” YearsFirstsFactsLanguageMy OwnPowerfulAtheismDevelopmentEvidenceYears AgoPositive AtheismVersionsAcquireAncestorCousinVocalEmergingApesChimpanzeesGorillasOrangutansHominids Author:Roger Fouts
“The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.” MenMayStatesAtheismDevelopmentEvidenceHistoricalNotionPositive AtheismIdeologySuspicionDistrustAdversariesPrecursorAll State Author:Karl Mannheim
“The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.” WorldWayChildrenAgePastSupportChildhoodDevelopmentEvidenceStartingConvictionBest WayInstructionIntroducingFormalHarshEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood EducationWorking Now Book:Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education Source: Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education
“I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is to say that environmental concerns should certainly be addressed. We're not suggesting that any kind of development trample upon the existing laws that are there to insure that we maintain as high a quality of environment as possible.” ThinkingShouldKindLawQualitySupportEnvironmentDevelopmentEvidenceConcernCriticismEnvironmentalSuggesting Author:George Deukmejian
“The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.” WayBelieveMadeSaidStatesBeliefStageProductsDevelopmentEvolutionProveEvidenceArgumentSpeciesConclusionBlasphemyBiologistImplicitDeviousness Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky
“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayHumansFactsLawBeliefRaceMoralEffectsExampleDutyDevelopmentPeriodsEvidenceAbsolutesFavorsHuman RaceDogmaticMoral LawCannibalismContendingGood Moral Author:Bertrand Russell
“We have emphasized the importance of applied action research because it allows evidence-based policy and program development and a focus on learning. We are also committed to using a participatory approach in which local people, local program managers and providers, local researchers, women's health activists, and national decision-makers play the leading role. International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers.” PeopleImportantPlayActionDecisionAnswersRolesFocusPolicyDevelopmentApproachResearchEvidenceProgramImportanceUniversityInternationalCommittedLocalsManagersExpertsAgencyContributionActivistMakersAssistanceResearchersProvidersDecision MakersImportant ContributionsWomen's Health Author:Ruth Simmons
“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.” BookReadingGrowsBehindsStageDevelopmentEvidenceEmsSurroundShellsLobsterStages Of Development Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better.” WritingBigsForgetFictionDevelopmentEvidenceFunctionStressRegionsHoneyNonfictionMarySiteTrust MeRequestBendingCannibalismInterviewersReconsiderationWriting Nonfiction Author:Mary Doria Russell
“This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.” MenYearsMayReasonEarthLastsPurposeGivenViewsMillionsSupportDevelopmentEvolutionEvidenceUltimateImpressionTriumphPermanentNo ReasonChaptersDinosaursScientific Evidence Author:David Attenborough