Best evidence & absence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

Knows Believe Ends Hard Light Action Belief Waiting My Own Walks Emotion Responsibility Color Discipline Evidence Seasons Sight Winter Insight Absence My Time Spite Inaction Bud Birdsong

Author:Mark Buchanan

“The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.”

Wealth Evidence Mark Possession Absence Favors Heavenly

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.”

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Author:Scott Clifton

“Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.”

Evidence Response Absence Rejoice

Book:God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

Source: God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

“There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.”

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Book:History of Western Philosophy

Source: History of Western Philosophy

“Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.”

Elements Evidence Absence Bridges Concrete

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to use an infinitely problematized but necessary term here) is fundamentally positive. And the evidence that in disasters people are really pretty kind, generous, brave, resourceful and creative fed that.”

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Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.”

“The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era." Whether policy is going to be made more and more in the absence of scientific input.”

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Author:Rush D. Holt, Jr.

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”

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Author:Michael Crichton

“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”

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Book:Sula

Source: Sula

“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”

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Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”

Evidence Absence

Author:Carl Sagan

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

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Author:Martin Rees

“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'”

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Author:David Eller

“What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.”

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Author:Peter Singer

“The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.”

“There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.”

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Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence”

Evidence Absence

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.”

Ideas Matter Government Interest Expression Speech Benefits Evidence Tradition Democratic Absence Contrary Censorship Regulation Interfere Theoretical Freedom Of Expression Democratic Society

Author:John Paul Stevens

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