“A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.” ThinkingKnowsWantStillsWantedLastsExampleEvidenceThreatFolksIraqFranceParisFlagsLast Time Author:David Letterman
“Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.” NeedsMayFormNumbersExampleAnxietyEvidenceDoctorsSoldierOneselfProfessionPrimariesLimitationRelatedPriestsMotivatedSpheresTranscendenceAvoidedSpecialnessMorticians Author:Irvin D. Yalom
“History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?” ShouldHappensAnswersGroupsExampleFitAuthorityEvidenceTherapyHappy EndingsEmpirical Evidence Author:Robert Todd Carroll
“Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.” KindRealityEarthPoliticalPoliticsJusticePartyCommonGenerationsPolicyExamplePoliticianEthicsEvidenceStrategyIdeologyZonePolitical PartiesCivilityCommon GroundPartisanshipScorched Earth Author:Hillary Clinton
“Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.” ShouldChildrenFactsAgeOpinionInformationExampleFieldsTaughtProductsSourceEasierBenefitsEvidenceAccountsMedicalNewspapersExperimentsThese DaysControlledAssociationPeersJournalHierarchyPromotingFringeBlogsDistortionMisinformationPseudoHealth Benefits Author:Daniel Levitin
“People feel that the Bible is unequivocal in stating that the age of the earth is very young and so on and so forth, and so the big things get lumped together with the lesser things. And the age of the earth is for example virtually made a touchstone of doctrine, when there's so much evidence out there in science against it.” PeopleFeelsMadeBigsAgeEarthTogetherYoungExampleEvidenceDoctrineBig ThingsTouchstonesUnequivocal Author:John Lennox
“Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.” CharacterJesusChristianityTeachingExampleEvidenceException Book:Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God Source: Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God
“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 fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayHumansFactsLawBeliefRaceMoralEffectsExampleDutyDevelopmentPeriodsEvidenceAbsolutesFavorsHuman RaceDogmaticMoral LawCannibalismContendingGood Moral Author:Bertrand Russell
“I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.” CharacterFactsExampleTrumpEvidenceWarriorJoyfulEngagingMarcosFabrication Author:Ted Cruz
“Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeHas BeensLawHumanityCasesCrimeExampleLowsEvidenceTrialsCampsAcceptableDocumentsDocumentaries80sCrimes Against HumanityDeath Camps Author:Marvin Hier
“All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.” ExampleTaxesEvidenceEuropeBritainMigrants Author:Tony Blair
“There's all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process, they obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.” PeopleWayKindProblemBigsFacesProcessResultsTeacherExampleMarriedEvidenceConsequenceVoteDollarsCorruptionSolveEnormousAll KindsBudgetsDistributionGetting Married Author:Akbar Ganji
“Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'” PeopleKnowsMindDifferentTechnologyCenturyExampleEvidenceAreasMedicineEdgesGenuineBritain21st CenturyOpen MindNew TechnologyModificationKeep An Open MindScientific Evidence Author:Tony Blair
“Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.” NeedsHumansSaidSeemsTogetherDiesFallBornLosesHuman BeingsConsciousnessDyingLonelinessExampleEvidenceNotesTiesProfessorsInteractionPhysiciansInfantTogethernessIdiocy Author:Gary Chapman
“In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds ... that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.” WorldKindDoeLightEarthScienceUniverseHeavenStarsExistenceExampleBearsEvidenceBuiltParisTemplesSoleImpressedRoyalStampsVibrationsMoleculesHydrogenArchivesMetricsSiriusMetric System Author:James Clerk Maxwell