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“If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).”

Done Spiritual Strong Grace Divine Evidence Profit Illness Protection Believer Flesh Foolish Refuge Humiliation Grace Of God Fortresses Divine Protection

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.”

“Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.”

People Thinking Believe Wells Reason Evidence Don't Believe Foolish No Reason Straightforward

Author:Peter Atkins

“It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”

Real Evidence Refuse Convinced Foolish

Author:Upton Sinclair

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

“Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.”

Body Broken Late Bird Evidence Window Foolish Assumption Too Late Comical

Book:Liberator

Source: Liberator

“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.”