“[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.” YearsFactsPoliticalCultureGivenAbilityRepublicanEvidenceStructureDecayModeratesRomneyMassachusettsAbility To Change Author:Newt Gingrich
“Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].” UseMovingScienceCultureCoursesLanguageCommonDesignStrangeEvidenceDiscoveryConcernedExperimentsCommon SenseObservationParadoxRefinedUnfamiliarCorrectionsPreconceptionsCommon Culture Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.” HumansDifferentCultureEnvironmentSolutionsConceptsEvidenceProductionsFree WillIdenticalTheologicalHomo SapiensFactualContingency Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“There is a divide in our culture between people who want to see evidence of a politiсian's knowledge and worldliness, and people for whom "git 'er done" actions, as you put it, provide tangible proof of the ability to lead. I don't know how developed that idea is.” PeopleKnowsWantIdeasDoneActionCultureAbilityKnow HowEvidenceProofDividesTangibleWorldliness Author:Libby Copeland
“Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.” WellsCultureProcessEvidenceMethodConservativeUncertaintyPrizeBad ThingsReviewsPeersLimbsCautiousGoreScientific MethodPeer Review Author:Al Gore
“No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.” MatterFormLawCultureEvidenceNo Matter WhatCourtLowestTestimonyEyewitnesses Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.” PeopleMenHumansStillsSoulCultureBeliefReligiousModernPaintingEvidenceAwakeningLandscapeCavesSculptureParallelsHuman SoulSymbolicReligious BeliefDepictionNeanderthals Author:Werner Herzog
“Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.” GivingCultureProcessSupportElementsEvidenceClaimsPropertyRelevantTransmissionReplicateEmpirical Evidence Author:Dan Sperber
“I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.” ThinkingWantMeanIdeasSometimesSeemsAmericaCultureUnderstandingGrowing UpGrowingBalanceEvidenceEuropeClaimsNotionWhat You WantAwfulFrankContinentsSophisticatedCompetingCrowdedYour Freedom Author:Douglas Adams
“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
“We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so, rather than fear the surrounding culture, and the surrounding cities which predictably results in a bunker mentality the emerging congregation embraces the culture and expects to find God in it" the emerging congregation embraces the culture recognizing that its not all pretty but it embraces the culture and even then expects to find god in it because there is nowhere god isn't. there are many places where the church isn't but I don't think that means there are places where god isn't.” ThinkingLooksMeanArtFilmCultureLiteratureChurchResultsCitiesDivineEvidenceEmbraceMentalityRecognizingEmergingCongregationBunkers Author:John Middendorf
“Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.” PeopleThinkingWayMindRealSelfUseCultureAbilityEvidenceMarkNotesSpeciesOneselfNostalgiaDeceptionMotiveConstructsNarratorsSemblance Author:Sergio Chejfec
“It was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole to find evidence of the melting glaciers and global warming, and they got stuck in the ice and it took three ice breakers and a helicopter to rescue them. Yet they still carry the day in the pop culture that global warming is happening.” LongStillsCultureThreeHappeningsEvidenceSouthPopsStuckBunchBoatIceGlobal WarmingRescueLong AgoPop CultureMeltingResearchersHelicoptersGlaciersIce Breaker Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Actually, on a slightly more serious but kind of parallel level, I remember being on Loveline before both hosts ascended into loftier places in the culture. But I remember being shocked by Dr. Drew. He went into this extended monologue about how anyone with a baby voice is probably the victim of child abuse or has some daddy issue. As an intellectually curious person, all I could think is that there isn't any clinical evidence about that. But to be the guy wearing the doctor's hat on the radio and teaching everybody about this? It just seemed like a parody of good advice.” ThinkingKindChildrenRememberGuyCultureTeachingAdviceSeriousBabyEvidenceAbuseVictimCuriousHostChild AbuseDaddyGood Advice Author:John Flansburgh
“Archaeology in general is the recovery and study of the material culture of past civilizations. Biblical archaeology is as an application of the science of archaeology to the field of biblical studies. Through the comparison and integration of Scripture with the evidence of history and culture derived from archaeology, new insights into the biblical context of people and events, and sometimes the interpretation of the text itself, are possible. In this way archaeology serves as a necessary tool for biblical exegesis and for apologetic concerns.” PeopleSometimesPastCultureStudyEvidenceConcernInsightScriptureRecoveryComparisonApplicationBiblicalIntegrationArchaeologyApologetic Author:Randall Price
“There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.” MenCultureNationsViewsHalfEvidenceHatredOne ManOne Woman Author:Gary Bauer
“In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.” WorldCultureFoundLanguagePiecesJourneyDesignInspireTravelEvidenceSensibilityPersonal LifeFunny TravelJewelrySceneryGreat TravelPhotography And TravelTravel And CultureLanguage Culture Author:Ivanka Trump
“In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture.” PeopleEyeLawReligionCultureNationsReligiousHighestEvidenceIslamWesternToleranceBrokeToleration Author:Marmaduke Pickthall
“Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.” PeopleCultureOpinionConversationEvidenceCleverTendenciesRadicalToneTemperListenersConsiderateBe Considerate Book:Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day