“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindBookRunningJobsCertainStuffChangedProveEvidenceDecidedLogicMathCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningBuddyOntologySloppyYou Changed Author:David Auburn
“Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.” IdeasFactsJobsNewsEvidenceOkayBe GoodNews ReportingTrusting Again Author:Craig Newmark
“My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.” IfsJobsMessagesLowsEvidenceContraryEmploymentUnemploymentWagesTacticsIntimidationScams Author:Nick Hanauer
“A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.” IfsWorldGivingStatesReasonDonePlayJobsOpportunitySidesWaterBehindsRepublicanTruth IsNewsEvidenceOkayHotPressesDemocratConclusionJournalismJournalistDividesConventionalColleaguesFree PressHot Water Author:Bill Moyers
“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.” WorldFirstsImportantHardFactsRealityTogetherJobsPastPowerfulLeaderFitTruth IsEvidenceRoundsSaintAvailableJournalistAnalysisMost PowerfulHistorianDisagreementPast And PresentDissidentsMosaicsPowerful LeadersTilesCobblestone Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)” IfsBelieveMayJobsUsedInterestEvidenceMy FriendsArgumentWeightMethodPrisonPunishmentBelieve In GodGovernorsPopeCritiqueCapital PunishmentInterest In Others Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.” WayLongMatterJobsDarkSpaceTheoryProveEvidenceStringsLong WayLabsCorrectnessOuter SpaceDay JobsString TheoryDark Matter Author:Michio Kaku
“It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.” PeopleIfsNeedsHardJobsActingSupportEvidenceResourcesOrganizationProfitAgentsManagersGet MoneyNon Profit Author:Sonja Sohn
“I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.” MenBelieveHomeJobsFormPoliticalOpportunityI BelieveTheoryEvidenceBuiltBelieve In MeServitudePolitical PowerJob Opportunities Author:Amanda Marcotte
“I'm required to do every job well enough that I'd use it as evidence in court - that doesn't come cheaply! Property is a critical asset for individuals. Maintaining the cadastre (legal survey fabric) is an important job and a valuable service.” WellsImportantEnoughUseJobsIndividualEvidenceCourtPropertyValuableCriticalAssetsFabricMaintainingSurveysImportant Jobs Author:Mark Mason
“A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.” JobsEvidenceFilesProsecutor Author:Kevin Steele
“I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.” IfsThinkingChildrenLongAblePainJobsFeltParentImagineEvidenceDoctorsPoliceIllOfficersEngagementNurseTherapistsPolice OfficerBurn OutEmpathetic Author:Paul Bloom
“Obama's gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He's got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In fact, the very fact he's talking about the minimum wage is evidence there is no robust job market.” PlayFactsJobsTalkingEvidenceMinimumSantaMinimum WageSanta ClausRobustBrag Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindMightJobsEvidenceScientistNutsBias Author:Martha Beck
“History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.” WayWarJobsWinningSecurityMilitaryOffersEvidenceCombatNational SecurityPropositionsReadinessAssignments Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.” WayWellsHas BeensWarHardUseHomeCareAgeSchoolJobsChoicesEnergyLostNationsEconomyViolenceFailingPlanetsUnderstoodEvidenceConsequenceHatredCrisisGreedHealth CareEach DayReachingCollectivesMidstShedNew AgeOur PlanetAdversariesIrresponsibility Author:Barack Obama
“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.” IfsWellsMatterJobsTermCasesDoubtColorEvidenceStrategyProofReasonableGrayShadeIrrelevantAttorneyJustice SystemIfs AndReasonable DoubtDefense Attorneys Author:Michael Connelly
“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