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Book:Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

Source: Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

“We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.”

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Author:C. West Churchman

“You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.”

Needs Understanding Results Practice Support Teacher Teaching Research Evidence Critical Consumers Ecosystems

Author:Ben Goldacre

“We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution”

Needs Use Cases Records Evolution Evidence Gaps Fossils Paradoxical

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

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

“Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.”

Needs Wells Order Evidence Contrary Certainty Suspicion

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.”

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Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.”

“Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.”

Source: A Universe From Nothing

“We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.”

Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

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Author:Jack McDevitt

“We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.”

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year

“We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.”

“Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless and useless. That is the evidence of the enemy. All those things need to be attacked with joy, with peace, with love and grace, with mercy, with kindness and the goodness of God.”

Needs Feels Joy Enemy Kindness Grace Goodness Evidence Mercy Useless Hopeless Powerless Inadequate Unworthy Goodness Of God

Author:Graham Cooke

“There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.”

Ifs Needs Principles Evidence Evident

Book:The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions

Source: The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions

“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.”

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Author:Han Suyin

“Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.”

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Author:Edward Thomson

“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.”

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Author:Lynn Margulis

“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.”

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Author:David Oshinsky

“When we think good thoughts and choose the actions that make us feel good, Life provides us with all the evidence we need that we are loved and cared for.”

Thinking Needs Feels Action Evidence Feel Good Good Life Good Thoughts

Author:Louise Hay

“We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.”

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Author:Rebecca Goldstein

Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe

“...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself and the argument that gives it Order, that we need to share with one another, and not just the unsupported final Claim.”

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Author:Philip Morrison

“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.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?”

Needs Mind Evidence Changing Your Mind

Author:Seth Godin

“To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.”

Needs Challenges Brain Evidence Connections Unusual Repetition Novelty Stimulus

Author:Robert Winston

“All the evidence we need that God is angry with us is Justin Timberlake's career.”

Needs Careers Evidence Angry Justin

Author:Greg Giraldo

“Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.”

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Author:Russell Sherman

“If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?”

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Author:Robert W. Funk

“Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?”

Needs Internet Evidence

Book:They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

Source: They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

“I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.”

People Thinking Needs Order Serious Evidence Average Managers Performing Getting High

Author:Thomas Piketty

“The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.”

Needs Self Cases Evidence Gains Criticism Self Criticism

Book:A rationalist encyclopaedia: a book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics, and science

Source: A rationalist encyclopaedia: a book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics, and science

“If one were to claim that the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq have been provided with "keys to heaven" by the Pentagon, would that need historical research to be disproved or would you just say, "That's just propaganda"? Indeed, how can you disprove the claim that U.S. soldiers have such keys? Or why should you disprove such ridiculous claims? It is the accusers who must provide the evidence.”

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Author:Mohammad Marandi

“State Department lawyers need to have the evidence to back up the charge before they make it. Here's Nebraska Republican Jeff Fortenberry questioning Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson at a House hearing.”

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Author:Tom Gjelten

“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.”

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Author:Hilary Kornblith

“It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.”

“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.”

“"Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."”

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Book:Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

“According to international law, in order to use force, we need to feel, we need good evidence that we are under imminent threat of actual attack. And I think we need to stand up for international law.”

Thinking Needs Feels Use Law Order Force Evidence Threat International International Law

Author:Jill Stein

“Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.”

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Author:Elliott Sober

“I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.”

Thinking Needs Trump Behavior Judgment Evidence Voters Judged American Voters

Author:Tim Kaine

“Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.”

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Author:Bill McKibben

“I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.”

People Thinking Needs Evidence Angry Helpful Activist

Author:Duncan Green

“This country needs to take a deep breath. We are a strong, resilient nation. And the idea that the Russians hacked our election needs to be investigated. There is very little evidence at that moment except for the DNC servers.”

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Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or hold over their heads suffering forever in hell. They need the immortality of the soul. I did my research, it's not in the Bible, so what do they do? They relied on Judaism, which has always believed in the immortality of the soul. I start checking on that and I look in the Judaica Encyclopedia and what do I find? Their remark that Judaism probably got the immortality of the soul from the Greeks, so I go back further, where it all started with Plato.”

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Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“There's not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an infinite number of parallel universes - that's not a very good theory.”

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Author:Adam Frank

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