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“Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.”

Understanding Creation Like You Creatures Evidence Refuse Conviction Creator Senses Not Afraid Assertion Admitting

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“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.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.”

Ifs Way Mean Children Reading Taught Evidence Bother Propaganda Dull Bores Prey Implications Assertion Tedious

Author:Joan Aiken

“The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Mind Made Problem Answers Results Waste Evidence Argument Ideology Wasting Time Irrelevant Discouraging Assertion Mind Made Up

Author:William J. Clinton

“The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.”

Records Events Evidence Winter Extremes Objectives Weather Reports Global Warming Etc Temperature Assertion Drought Wildfires Extreme Weather

Author:James Taylor

“There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that how science is practiced actually makes a difference in their lives. If evidence becomes optional, if ideological assertions or beliefs are just as good as scientifically vetted evidence, then their quality of life suffers. I think that's dawning on people. There's a level of concern unlike anything I've seen.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Suffering Belief Differences Levels Quality Members Evidence Concern Dawn Making A Difference Quality Of Life Ideological Assertion Optional

Author:Rush D. Holt, Jr.

“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.”

War President Evidence Bases International Iraq Doctrine Radical Assertion Unprecedented Iraq War Coalitions

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.”

Religion Courses Religious Atheism Design Evidence Bases Intelligent Assertion Intelligent Design

Author:David Hillis

“There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”

Science Asks Doubt Evidence Scientist Errors Barriers Dogma Inquiry Assertion

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer