“So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.” ThinkingNeedsTryingChildrenRealProblemBigsCausesNumbersMistakeStudyFiguresKeysDiseaseEvidenceWideRangeAutismVaccinesBig ProblemsPolio Author:David Oshinsky
“You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.” FeelsBodyTodayAbilityHealingFiguresAmountTomorrowTenEvidenceSickIllnessYour BodyFeel GoodWellnessSicknessAbility To ChangeToday And TomorrowChange Your Thoughts Author:Esther Hicks
“No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.” EyeFiguresEvidenceNakedVillageSkeletonsSophistryNaked Eyes Book:All Men Are Brothers Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.” TryingKindMeanProcessFiguresTruth IsActivityFindingsEvidenceQuestsInvestigationPlatesCafeteria Author:Errol Morris
“I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.” ThinkingShouldBelieveI BelieveFiguresModelsEvidenceTweak Author:Dana Goldstein
“What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise that we may need to change our views on these questions as new evidence comes in.” NeedsMindMayViewsIssuesFiguresTheoryEvidenceAvailableRecogniseNeed A Change Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.” KnowsWellsImportantHardBodySeemsArtistFightingPerfectForgetDealsAudienceViolenceCrazyMissingFiguresEvidenceTraditionPerformancesRefuseFocusedStuckSignificantBitterFeminineCorpsesInvitingPrototypeAntigoneHavishamMiss Havisham Author:Laura Mullen
“I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical figure at all.” BelieveJesusFiguresEvidenceHistoricalDon't BelieveMortalsHistorical Figure Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.” WritingBookTodayPoliticsFiguresPoliticianSpeechEvidenceSarcasmSarcasticPublic SpeakingPublic FiguresSpeaking In PublicSpeech And Writing Author:Gore Vidal
“I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.” PeopleThinkingIssuesFiguresJudgmentEvidenceBasesOur SocietyPublic Figures Author:Robert Winston
“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.” IfsHandsRealityFormSpeakLevelsExistenceFiguresPerceptionEvidenceMadPhotographMediumsModestBizarreLoadedConversesHallucinations Author:Roland Barthes
“The problems come when it's time to put our faith in things other than the Lord. There's no doubt that other people can be tricky. But once again, it's all about listening to your heart. That don't mean you should ignore what your head's telling you. But your heart will do a much better job of helping you figure out who's good and who ain't. Who deserves your faith, and who doesn't. If you judge solely by evidence, you could wind up making some big mistakes.” PeopleIfsShouldHeartMeanHelpingProblemBigsJobsMistakeLordDoubtFiguresJudgingWindListeningEvidenceDeserveNo DoubtTrickyListen To Your HeartBetter JobsBig Mistake Author:Kirsten Miller
“Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.” BelieveHumansRealReligionLiteratureJesusHuman BeingsAtheismFiguresEvidenceTraditionAncientMythologyDespitePaganAncient Literature Author:Dennis McKinsey