“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.” FormSecretRecordsTreeEvolutionEvidenceTradeExtremesDataBranchesReasonablePersistFossilsTextbooksInferenceRarityPaleontologyCreation ScienceCreation And Evolution Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.” IfsShouldMayDoeBeliefEventsDependsEvidenceMiracleRegardIncrediblesExtremesProofCommandSufficientProbabilityCredibilityImprobableSufficiency Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
“The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.” GovernmentOpportunityWillingEvidenceAssumingDefinitionsExtremesContestsAccusation Author:Glenn Greenwald
“In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.” GivingEnoughValuesQualityEvidenceExtremesStupidityAttributesDespise Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.” PeopleEffortTeachingEvidenceToolsMedicineExtremesAlternativesTherapistsBasicsGreat Teaching Author:Tracey Gold
“The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.” RecordsEventsEvidenceWinterExtremesObjectivesWeatherReportsGlobal WarmingEtcTemperatureAssertionDroughtWildfiresExtreme Weather Author:James Taylor
“The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.” IfsHas BeensStillsLinesFailingEventsHappeningsEvidenceScientistClimateExtremesDecadesWeatherFloodSevereFrequencyDroughtPredictingExtreme Weather Author:David Suzuki
“An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.” KnowsLittlesDoeSeemsCertainUniverseCausesDealsExistenceDoubtAtheismSubjectsInspireEvidenceUltimateAtheistExtremesUncertaintyCompellingSkepticismGod ExistsExistence Of God Author:Carl Sagan
“The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?” BelieveWellsReasonWholeEarthYoungTurnsAsksViewsWonderEvolutionDisciplineEvidenceLogicTragedyExtremesDecadesDespiteMassiveSincereMultipleSeekersAbandonmentGenesisCreationismGlossUnjustifiedScientific EvidenceConcluding Author:Francis Collins
“It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and by studying things like neutron stars, we are in effect learning something about fundamental physics.” IdeasBigsEarthScienceEnergyStarsLearningStudyClearAchieveConditionsEffectsBecomingHigherEvidenceTestsFundamentalsExtremesPhysicsCosmosNew IdeasBangsParticlesLaboratoryNeutronsParticle Physics Author:Martin Rees