“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.” MenWayGivingMaySometimesWould BeWishCausesChristWealthBecomingEvidenceStrongerCloudsFavorsRationalReputationInstanceWitnessEnjoymentRisingDepartmentHonorableTestimonyWish YouManlyFervent Book:The Papers of James Madison Source: The Papers of James Madison
“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.” MenWayShouldKindWarRealUseBodyMightWould BeHumanityFightingTeachKnowingStudyModernBecomingProtectWeaponsSurvivalTrainingEvidenceCrisisSpeciesCombatFierceVolunteerRestraintMassacresAdaptableAmenableWomen In Combat Author:Margaret Mead
“Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.” PeopleIfsPurposeNamesGrowsGrowthExistenceMoralSourceBecomingHigherEvidenceWorthyImprovementDivinityExistence Of GodHigher PurposeMoral Growth Book:The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs Source: The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs
“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.” MayPastLawNextCausesWaterCommonHalfFeetCenturyAmountCoupleBecomingOceanHighestPercentEvidenceIncreaseEnglandTwentiesEnvironmentalAverageWaveOilDecadesHeightRisingFreakCoastNinetyEightyRisenOver The PastBecoming More Author:Sebastian Junger
“If Christians continue to rely on emotion and ignore evidence, they will continue to lose their children to secularism. As Ravi Zacharias points out, a tepid Christianity cannot withstand a rabid secularism. And make no mistake-secularism is rabid. The world isn't neutral out there. Today's culture is becoming increasingly anti-Christian.” IfsWorldChildrenTodayChristianCultureLosesEmotionMistakeChristianityBecomingEvidenceRelySecularismAnti Christian Author:Frank Turek
“I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.” LooksAmericaForceTermBecomingEvidenceOptimisticHumankindProminent Author:Cornel West
“I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.” AgeNextSocialBecomingUnderstoodEvidenceEmbracePhonesPostsPrivacyEmailInvasionBecoming MorePhone CallsUnspeakableTextingInvasion Of Privacy Author:Will Self
“It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and by studying things like neutron stars, we are in effect learning something about fundamental physics.” IdeasBigsEarthScienceEnergyStarsLearningStudyClearAchieveConditionsEffectsBecomingHigherEvidenceTestsFundamentalsExtremesPhysicsCosmosNew IdeasBangsParticlesLaboratoryNeutronsParticle Physics Author:Martin Rees
“NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.” ShouldHumansBecomingEvidenceClimate ChangeCaughtCurrentsAgencyCollectionsGlobal WarmingCaught UpNasaHysteriaScientific Evidence Author:Walter Cunningham
“Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.” ReasonShowsLyingCausesBecomingEvidenceSensesPassingPassingsPassing AwayFalsification Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.” WeekSeriousBecomingEvidenceCrisisClimateClimate ChangeScientific Evidence Author:Al Gore
“Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye.” MatterReasonSeemsMightEyeTruthScienceHistoryGreaterBecomingDegreesEvidenceObservationApprovalObserving Author:J. H. Plumb