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“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”

Ifs Opinion Information Evidence Weak Bases Difficulty Accurate Interpreting New Information

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“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.”

Ifs Hands Reality Form Speak Levels Existence Figures Perception Evidence Mad Photograph Mediums Modest Bizarre Loaded Converses Hallucinations

Author:Roland Barthes

“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”

Ifs Hands Found Poor Conditions Divine Capable Evidence Salvation Shoulders Saving Mortals Gestures Smallest Uncertain Propositions Inclination

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.”

“Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn't that an idea of only minor importance? Doesn't every human being, no matter which era he lives in, always have to reckon with being accountable to God at any moment? Can I know whether I'll be alive tomorrow morning? A bomb could destroy all of us tonight. And then my guilt would not be one bit less than if I perished together with the arth and the stars.”

“If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.”

Ifs Trying Past Mouths Evidence Cat Stealing Ruth Fridges Burglars Just A Thought Random Things Poisoners

Author:Holly Black

“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”

Ifs Firsts Would Be Lasts Evidence Confirmation

Author:Zadie Smith

“I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”

Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

“Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.”

Ifs Kind Done Half One Thing Ten Evidence Adults Responsible Lifetime Locals Things To Do Shops Mature Panic Outlets Supposing One Of A Kind Supposing That Throttle

Author:Alexandra Ivy

“The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.”

Ifs Book Seems Evidence Thrown

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”

“Hi, Tad!' she said. 'Hi, Jeff! Hey, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?' 'Uh, no,' I said. 'We were just...I mean, Tad was...uh, nope.' 'So what were you guys talking about?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's very complicated. We were discussing...umm...hats. You know, hats. Like, the head kind.' 'There's another kind?' Lindsey asked. 'Hey, Jeff?' Tad said. 'If your mom needs any evidence to prove that you're retarded, let me know. I'd be glad to record you talking to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick.”

Ifs Knows Needs Wells Kind Mean Said Guy Talking Records Mom Prove Evidence Let Me Complicated Glad Tricks Hey Hats Discussing Your Mom Retarded Interrupting

Book:After Ever After

Source: After Ever After

“We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?”

Source: Succubus Heat

“Jesus has chosen, even in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, to retain for the benefit of His disciples the wounds in His hands and in His feet and in His side-signs, if you will, that painful things happen even to the pure and the perfect; signs, if you will, that pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn't love you; signs, if you will, that problems pass and happiness can be ours.”

Ifs World Problem Body Hands Happens Pain Jesus Sides Perfect Feet Love You This World Pure Benefits Evidence Painful Wounds Things Happen Chosen Disciple Painful Things

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Would Be Universe Evolution Amount Evidence Available Favour Creationism

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.”

Ifs Stills Found Force Animal Evidence Conclusion Fossils Surviving

Book:The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.”

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into these brutal encounters will a) make a dame sure he is a success, and b) all you to see evidence of that success with the added bonus of a cheering crowd. This means that sports are supported with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The football team gets catered dinners before a fame. Honor Society is lucky if it gets a cupcake. Academic success-forget it. That requires too much imagination. There's no scoreboard.”

“Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?”

Ifs Should Writing Believe Belief Genius Evidence Britain Professors Impossibility

Author:Kirk Cameron

“We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.”

Ifs Giving Accepting Grace Acceptance Evidence Salvation Thanks Manifestation Full Life Free Gifts

Author:Ann Voskamp

“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”

Ifs Want Firsts Truth Evidence Search For Truth Searchers Bitter Truth

Book:Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

Source: Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

“I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.”

Ifs Believe Different Country Reason Would Be Political Humanity Natural Practice Evidence Don't Believe Inevitable Kitchen No Reason Combat Knives Shortage Kitchen Knives

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.”

Ifs Should Mind Mean Reality Universe Wish Imagination Existence Draws Evidence Philosophical Vices Conclusion Significance Conform Open Mind Implications Vice Versa

Book:A Universe From Nothing

Source: A Universe From Nothing

“Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.”

Ifs Wells Matter Jobs Term Cases Doubt Color Evidence Strategy Proof Reasonable Gray Shade Irrelevant Attorney Justice System Ifs And Reasonable Doubt Defense Attorneys

Author:Michael Connelly

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

Ifs Running Girl Chance Mets Evidence Opposites Despite Shirts Chances Are One Chance

Book:The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye

Source: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye

“If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?”

Ifs Should Values Prove Evidence Argument Logic Logical Invoke Logical Arguments

Author:Sam Harris

“Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Mean Long Dies Asks Chance Animal Laughing Environment Fronts Theory Creatures Eating Long Time Evidence Sick Add Vegetarian Purgatory Carnivores

Author:David Levithan

“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.”

People Ifs Should Heart Mean Helping Problem Bigs Jobs Mistake Lord Doubt Figures Judging Wind Listening Evidence Deserve No Doubt Tricky Listen To Your Heart Better Jobs Big Mistake

Author:Kirsten Miller

“I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Looks Body Moving Parent Land Evidence Window Breaths Staring Massive Our World Compelling Tense Deep Breath Tris Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“What if I promise not to touch you?" "Cath laughed. "Now I have zero incentive to come." "What if I promise to let you touch me first?" "Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands." "I've seen no evidence of that, Cath." "In my head, I'm all hands." "I want to live in your head.”

Ifs Want Firsts Persons Hands Promise Evidence What If Zero Laughed Incentives I Promise Touch Me Untrustworthy

Book:The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.”

Source: Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”

Ifs Real Individual Friendship Listening Gratitude Evidence Errors Faults Display Real Friends Disclosure Friendship Day That One Friend Gratitude For Friends

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.”

“Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.”

Ifs Men Believe Reason Creation Evidence Weight Free Will Masterpiece Determinism

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.”

Ifs Way Wise Evidence Difficulty Adversity Glad Being Wise Errands

Book:I Walk by Faith

Source: I Walk by Faith

“If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem”

Ifs Want Mean Doe Play Problem Happens Past Moving Games Community Ignorance Ready Evidence Lists Ass Pockets Bad Ass Physicist Invoke

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”

“We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?”

Ifs World Heaven Religious Behinds Design This World Glory Evidence Bounds Immortality Our Thoughts Assurance Consumed Occasional Trifles

Book:Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

Source: Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

“The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.”

Ifs Wells Doe Real Science Results Accepting Cases Acceptance Ought Evidence Consequence Determine Appearance Observation Certainty Combination Hypothesis Correctness

Author:William Whewell

“If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.]”

Ifs Trying Wells May Stills Enough Whole Facts Bigs Might Faces Science Order Universe Left Deals Economy Evidence Hot Be Good Bunch Mess Bowls Bangs Left Out Iowa Popcorn Tanning

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced.”

Ifs World Should May Has Beens Found Honesty Evidence Argument Deception Perceive Delusion Exposed Publish Deceived Sincerely Examination Imposition

Author:Orson Pratt

“If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.”

Ifs Seems Science History Century Theory Evidence Finals Guides Explanation Arrows Convergence North Pole

Author:Steven Weinberg

“All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.”

Ifs Mind Made Problem Science Found Ability Attention Forever Weakness Evidence Tests Scientist Interpretation Again And Again Continuing Tested Hypothesis Great Scientist Mind Changing

Author:Ernst Mayr

“I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They want it. Give it to them. Don't hide it and tell lies and make stories. They're not stupid....It's their information. It doesn't belong to the Army or the Department of Defence. If it's classified, take the classification off and give it to them!”

People Ifs World Want Giving Country Stories Happens Young Lying Military Stupid Information Evidence Army Department Crash Defence Ufo Classification Not Stupid

Author:Philip J. Corso

“If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.”

Ifs Littles Faith Christianity Clear Evidence Christian Life Contradiction Zeal Little Love Little Faith

Book:The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed

Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed

“Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that the public will experience a catastrophic loss if he does not complete his novel. The public is just clamoring to give him his fame. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by”

Ifs Giving Writing Believe Doe Book Reason Loss Powerful Fiction Novel Greatness Keys Fame Evidence Dare Delusion Great Writers

Author:Leonard Bishop

“Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.”

Ifs Kindness Greatness Evidence Glad Vain Be Kind Gladness

Author:Charles Fenno Hoffman

“The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.”

Ifs I Can Problem Government Political Politics Causes Common Evidence Rage Common Sense No Problem

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

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