“Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.” WellsHas BeensBookDoneSeemsCommunityEvolutionStandardsEvidenceClaimsDecadesContraryDeceptionDiscussionSpiteExposedIconsEducatorTextbooksExaggeratedGreat Service Author:Dean H. Kenyon
“NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.” EndsLawCommunityResultsEffortEvidenceChaosTerroristImmigrantsLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:James Zogby
“Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.” MatterProblemWould BeCommunityTaughtEvidenceAreasTreatsImportanceCriminalsRequirementsIndispensableBlanketDwellingSystematicMaintenanceDwelling PlaceCommunity Health Author:Felix Frankfurter
“That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assembled, for the public good.” PeopleMenUseLawInterestCommunityCommonOughtMembersEvidenceElectionPropertyBoundsPermanentSufficientAttachmentRepresentativesConsentDeprivedAssemblySuffragePublic GoodCommon Interests Author:George Mason
“Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who are obsessionally committed to explanations for disease and for therapy unsupported by a scrap of evidence except for their claimed therapeutic success.” RealPainFacesCommunityFantasyDiseaseEvidenceCommittedHopefullyErasTherapyExplanationInjuryEmergingTherapistsScrapTherapeutic Author:Patrick David Wall
“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.” ChildrenProblemSeemsGrowsParentCommunityGrowing UpEnvironmentMovementEmotionalTheoryPersonalityEvidenceAdultsSalvationIsraelCaringSavedDisasterReasonableFoundersPsychoanalytic Author:Sandra Scarr
“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.” MenWorldShouldDoeMadeEarthMotherCommunityAnimalCitiesMistakeWorstMankindBuildingEvidenceMental HealthIsolationMother EarthGregarious Author:Ralph Borsodi
“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.” FirstsHumansWarUseCommunityDifferencesResultsExampleEvidenceCapacityRelationFilledInternationalLocalsTragicResolveInternational RelationsSkillfulDiplomaticHuman WisdomLocal CommunityImpasseDiplomatic Relations Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.” MayTurnsCommunityEffectsAcceptanceEvidenceThirdsClimateClimate ChangePracticalsArtificialOddsSkepticismConsensusBeneficialReducingAffordableEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:Gregg Easterbrook
“Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!” WellsCommunityPsychologyMovementApproachEvidenceWell BeingInvitesImprovingPositive Psychology Author:Barbara Fredrickson
“In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.” LongEndsSeemsRunningTurnsCommunityCrazyEvidenceLong RunsGet Real Author:Geoffrey Hinton
“In New Zealand, sex workers are regarded as workers, as people who are members of the community, people who have a stake in the community - not just in the workplace, but in the broader community. They aren't objects to be controlled and regulated. They are not collateral evidence of a crime. They are human beings.” PeopleCommunityCrimeEvidenceWorkplaceCollateral Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.” NeedsMindBelieveHumansHeartSpiritualStrongCommunityNaturalReligiousEssentialsBehaviorEvidenceTraditionHuman MindEthicalInsufficientPropensitySpiritual ExperienceHuman HappinessKernelReligious TraditionsEthical BehaviorStrong Community Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.” MenWellsReasonEyePoliticalWinningProcessCommunityLosesReligiousJusticeEnemyDiversityEvidenceMarkSocial JusticeDareConvictionNeighborListsAcceptedConformityCreedsDissentOrthodoxyChokeSupremacyWin Or LoseDissolutionNon ConformitySpecifications Author:Learned Hand
“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem” IfsWantMeanDoePlayProblemHappensPastMovingGamesCommunityIgnoranceReadyEvidenceListsAssPocketsBad AssPhysicistInvoke Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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
“We've focused a lot on visible evidence. We believe that a community needs to make the visible statement about who the community is.” NeedsBelieveCommunityEvidenceFocusedStatementsVisible Author:James Hunt