“The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.” WholeProcessResultsActivityIntellectualStandardsEvidenceIndependentAurasPhysical Science Book:Knowledge And Decisions Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.” KnowsShowsGovernmentActionLawTakenClearRecordsAchieveSecurityJudgingBalanceActivityProtectEvidenceDeserveAccountsThreatLibraryPhonesCriminalsAccessMedicalAccountabilityPersonal LifeNational SecurityLaw EnforcementEnforcementAbidingOversightDecisive ActionMedical Records Author:Ralph Neas
“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.” PeopleLooksStoriesFeelingsHappensPastImaginationMemoriesMy OwnFireHappenedAirStageEventsActivityEvidenceEmptyPerformancesTheaterPhotographerPhotographAtmosphereVisualsAnticipationMy ImaginationAnalogiesPersonal ExperiencesFingerprintsEmpty Stage Author:Michael Kenna
“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.” WellsSelfCharacterFormWishNaturalEventsActivityShapesEvidenceLettersComplexesAffectionSurfaceDialogueCardsMaskServingFabricTestimonySelf CenteredAssertionSelf ServingOmniscient Book:Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
“Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.” TryingKindMeanProcessFiguresTruth IsActivityFindingsEvidenceQuestsInvestigationPlatesCafeteria Author:Errol Morris
“I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.” ThinkingWould BePoliticalAmountActivityEvidenceConsequenceFairsUncertaintySuspectsEngagingMilitancy Author:Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
“In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.” MotherExistenceActivityEvidenceAgencyReportsAprilRequestDetectivesFollow MeDaily Activities Author:Sophie Calle
“Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.” DecisionStudyMovementParticularActivityEvidenceTradeDecision MakingMonkeysAccumulationAccuracyNeuronsTrade Offs Author:Patricia Churchland
“There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.” PeopleGivingRealEffortInvolvedActivityEvidenceCharitable Author:Peter Kinderman
“It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.” PeopleNeedsFactsBodyCommonIssuesToo MuchGrowingSeriousActivityDiseaseEvidencePlantIncludingAthleteCancerActiveMythMeatDietsMusclesFuelDiverseConsumptionProteinTissuesDairyKidneysHealth IssuesPlant Based DietOsteoporosisKidney Disease Author:Sharon Gannon
“[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it.” PeopleTryingYearsFirstsBelieveWantedPoliticalLyingBlackPresidentTrumpCitizensActivityEvidenceRacistSupporterFoldsAmerican Citizens Author:Hillary Clinton
“Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.” WarLawGivenProcessDoorsStageActivityEvidenceClaimsPoliceCourtCriminalsMeaningfulSupremeBiasSupreme CourtLaw EnforcementEnforcementLicenseConstraintsJudicialBargainingCourthousesRacial Bias Author:Michelle Alexander
“The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.” RealEasyCommonBloodWalkingExerciseOffersActivityBenefitsEvidencePressureIncludingMoodObjectionsRatiosBlood PressureCholesterol Author:Andrew Weil
“The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.” ShouldHumansChristianDifferencesCommonBrainSupportGroupsShareActivityIntellectualEvidenceLettersShould HaveSlaveCharityCeaseSatanDemonLiarsFraudDogmaMinorsCultDecencyZealPresentingAgnosticismFundamentalistContentionScoundrelsCharlatansExorcism Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?” WellsLongSaidStillsMatterPainDiesLeftCuttingFashionFieldsActivityEvidenceJazzFingersTerrorHorribleReportsAlrightRelieved Author:Barry Lyga
“In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth.” MenMindIdeasEarthScienceJoyOrderTurnsGivenStudyInfluenceTheorySourceActivityEvidenceDepthDebateSpectatorsGeology Author:Louis Agassiz
“The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.” IfsFactsChanceTeachTeachingStudentsActivityNormalEvidenceGradesAppropriateCurvesDistributionAssessment Author:Benjamin Bloom
“Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ... If you look back into the sun's past, you find that we live in a period of abnormally high solar activity. ... It's a boom-bust system, and I would expect a crash soon. ... Having a crash would certainly allow us to pin down the sun's true level of influence on the Earth's climate. Then we will be able to act on fact, rather than from fear.” IfsLooksFactsAbleEarthPastLevelsSunInfluencePeriodsActivityEvidenceClimatePatternsObviousExplanationGlobal WarmingCrashBehaviourPinsVariables Author:Nigel Weiss