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“In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.”

Mind Would Be Chance Theory Truth Is Evidence Atheist Appearance Rational Agnostic Hypocrite Theism Pedants Pending

Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.”

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Author:Michael Jensen

“The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.”

Ifs Way Enough Universe Chance Numbers Design Fine Evidence Infinite Compelling Enough Time Tuning Fine Tuning

Author:Dennis Prager

“The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“It's kind of ironic that when you look at the evidence of intelligence and so on, a lot of it is anecdotal. A lot of it is, "Well, we saw this dolphin do this extraordinary thing," or, "We screwed up with our apparatus, and then the dolphins did this." And so it seems to me that the more we can actually watch them doing their thing, the better chance we'll have of making some sense of them.”

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Author:Hal Whitehead

“All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities ... the list goes on!”

Ifs Helping Shows Chance Pay Responsibility Conditions Goes On Equal Members Training Evidence Safety Trade Unions Caring Lists Get Better Equal Pay Trade Unions Health And Safety

Author:Frances O'Grady

“Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.”

Ifs World Mind Heart States Chance Knowing Evidence Independent Despite Optimistic Hopeful State Of Mind Persistent Keep The Faith Being Optimistic

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.”

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Book:The Elementary Particles

Source: The Elementary Particles

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

Ifs Running Girl Chance Mets Evidence Opposites Despite Shirts Chances Are One Chance

Book:The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye

Source: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye

“Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Mean Long Dies Asks Chance Animal Laughing Environment Fronts Theory Creatures Eating Long Time Evidence Sick Add Vegetarian Purgatory Carnivores

Author:David Levithan

“Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.”

“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.”

Ifs Facts Chance Teach Teaching Students Activity Normal Evidence Grades Appropriate Curves Distribution Assessment

Author:Benjamin Bloom