“I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA evidence, which I think should be used in all capital cases, but also with very careful attention. If the wrong guy is put to death, then that's a double tragedy. Not only has an innocent person been executed but the real perpetrator of the crime has not been held accountable for it, and in some cases may be still at large. But I support the death penalty in the most heinous cases.” IfsThinkingShouldMayPersonsStillsRealUsedGuyAttentionCasesSupportCrimeEvidenceTragedyCarefulInnocentPenaltiesDnaDeath PenaltyPerpetratorsInnocent PersonWrong GuyDna Evidence Author:Al Gore
“Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.” PayAttentionEvidence Author:Tom Robbins
“There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.” FirstsHumansChildrenReasonFactsGirlHuman BeingsAttentionEvidenceCaringCentreChild CareCentre Of Attention Author:Margaret Mead
“Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.” IfsAttentionParticularEvidencePaidThinkerObjectivityMaintenanceGreat Thinkers Author:Charlie Munger
“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.” PeopleThinkingKindBookPresidentAttentionTrumpDisciplineEmpathyEvidenceAdultsPraiseIllOneselfAvailableActiveMediumsEveningStarksMarkersNo Empathy Author:Ben H. Winters
“When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the theology of stewardship and the theology of "human ecology," it's almost certainly going to be rapturously embraced, or bitterly opposed, as a "global-warming encyclical," despite the evidence that it's much more broadly gauged than that.” HumansImportantAttentionPagesEvidenceClimateClimate ChangeTheologyDespiteGlobal WarmingDocumentsEcologyStewardship Author:George Weigel
“The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.” DonePastAttentionPolicyEvidenceConcernResponsibleCocaine Author:Carl Hart
“All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.” IfsMindMadeProblemScienceFoundAbilityAttentionForeverWeaknessEvidenceTestsScientistInterpretationAgain And AgainContinuingTestedHypothesisGreat ScientistMind Changing Author:Ernst Mayr
“We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous communities and nations.” ShouldHumansChildrenMotherValuesOpportunityNationsCommunityAttentionClearFocusHealthyEvidenceProsperityObviousHuman LifeProsperousBedrockMother And Child Author:Lee Jong-wook
“I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.” PeopleYearsFirstsRealFactsStoriesHandsGovernmentDesireAttentionHeardMilitaryPositionMaterialsEvidenceDenyCraftsWitnessAliensAnxiousCrashSiteIncidentsUfoStatureCredibleCredentialsFirst Hand Experience Author:Edgar Mitchell
“People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.” PeopleThinkingBelieveLooksIdeasSeemsPayAttentionDrawsEvidenceBillsWork OutGhostConclusionPay AttentionCynicismSkepticismSkepticalOpen MindOpen MindedScrewed UpNye Author:Bill Nye