“History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.” LongInterestingEvidenceArgumentStorytelling Author:Jill Lepore
“It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false will be more predictively accurate than a model known to be true. This opens the door to a kind of instrumentalism.” KindFactsHandsInterestingKnownDoorsModelsEvidenceBeing TrueAccurateSelectionInteresting Fact Author:Elliott Sober
“I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence of excellent prose. I don't think great novels are necessarily composed of great prose, or that there's a correlation between beautiful prose and the quality of a work of fiction. A really good, interesting novel will often let a little ugliness get into its words - to create a certain effect, to leave the reader with a certain sense of disorientation.” ThinkingBookBeautifulInterestingQualityNovelEvidenceExcellentProseUglinessPerplexed Author:Katie Kitamura
“I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. I have been critical of Teach For America in the past but I think one of the things about their model that's interesting is that they're constantly looking at it and whether what they're doing works and reassessing their model, and making changes. So to the extent that 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.” ThinkingBelieveSchoolPastI BelieveInterestingTeachEvidenceMotivatedMissionaryMaking ChangesZealTweak Author:Dana Goldstein
“I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way that evidence is used in mainstream academia, medicine and in (government) policy. One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.” WritingDifferentInterestingPolicyEvidenceObviousPlentyJournalistFlaws Author:Ben Goldacre
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” KnowsShouldMindHumansSometimesHappensLastsScienceReligionChangeInterestingViewsLearningHappenedPositionHumilityEvidenceArgumentScientistPainfulPhysicsHeartacheRecallsSkepticismLast TimeMistakenDnaScience And ReligionSkepticalSkepticScience And TechnologyArt And ScienceScientific MethodModern SciencePhilosophy Of ScienceNatural ScienceScience ReligionPhysical ScienceScientific TruthGreat ScienceScientific FactsScience PhysicsGod And SciencePale Blue DotScientific EvidenceGood ScienceSubtle AtheistScience LoveTheoretical PhysicsBest ScienceDiscovery In ScienceAdvances In ScienceNuclear Arms RaceInformation ScienceProgress In ScienceScientist LifeScience BooksEarth ScienceAdvancement Of ScienceFuture ScienceAtomic StructureScience FairImportance Of Science Author:Carl Sagan
“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.” FactsInterestingPlanetsPersonalityNormalAnxietyEvidenceAspectUnhappinessCompulsionInteresting ThingsFashionableStrangeness Book:The Psychopath Test Source: The Psychopath Test
“It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.” FactsSeemsActionScienceSportsInterestingEventsObjectsEvidenceInstancePhenomenonHistorianReally InterestingNaturalistTrue Fact Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting to try to understand this attitude. Most scientists have never had the occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon.” TryingProblemInterestingAttitudeEvidenceNegativeScientistStatementsOccasionsPhenomenonUfoNegative Attitude Author:Peter A. Sturrock