Best evidence & demand Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.”

Heart Kind Values Cases Impossible Demand Evidence Determined Proof Convince Skepticism Agnosticism Doubters Persuading Apologetic

Author:Edward John Carnell

“That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.”

Men Giving Law Found Causes Liberty Land Demand Judgment Evidence Criminals Favors Trials Guilty Witness Twelve Peers Consent Compelled Deprived Baths Jury Accusation Prosecution Accusers

Author:George Mason

“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Thinking World Needs Mind Persons Ideas Shows Running School Young Opportunity Given Planets Demand Authority Evidence Sacred Train Rational Brethren Young Minds

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence”

Demand Evidence Claims Extraordinary

Author:Carl Sagan

“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.”

Creativity Creative Pure Demand Evidence Ideology Sociology Sociological

Book:Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

“Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.”

Spiritual Spirituality Demand Evidence Proof Objectives Subjective Factual Spiritual Experience

Book:Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Source: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.”

Needs Humans Stills Earth Spirit Justice Freedom Human Beings Liberty Our Lives Materials Comfort Demand Evidence Sake Worthy Collectives Being Human Bondage Indivisible Expediency

Author:Han Suyin

“The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.”

Thinking Humans Reason Problem Suffering Too Much Demand Solutions Evidence Rational Guardian Rational Thinking Human Suffering

Author:Sam Harris

“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.”

Believe Whole Challenges Fool Demand Disease Evidence Treats Claims Patient Alternatives Labels Paradise Protected Quackery

Author:Edzard Ernst

“Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.”

Source: Why the Universe Is the Way It Is

“Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."”

Thinking Art Self Desire Artist Grows Groups Influence Demand Art Is Evidence Empowerment Stronger Historical Isolation Contracts Overwhelming Temper Proficiency Bunk

Author:Paul Gauguin

“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”

Inspirational Motivational Science Demand Evidence Claims Atheist Exceptional

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".”

Way Needs Facts Fiction Seeing Theory Source Demand Evidence Satisfied Hypothesis Adequate

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.”

Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.”

Knows World May Doe Ends Action Next Asks Given Ready Demand Evidence Climate Change Available Upset Tonight Next Day Incomplete Advancing Liable

Author:Austin Bradford Hill

“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.”

“The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.”

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Author:Nicholas Stern

“There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).”

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