“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
“Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.” LongMatterHardHard WorkResearchEvidenceLogicListsAnalysisReasoningWorking ItSubstitutesHypothesisTestingImpatientTroublesomeQuacks Author:Robert Todd Carroll
“We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.” WorldNeedsUseEvidenceMathematicalReasoningEmpirical Evidence Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.” LongRealityValuesBeliefResultsEffortJudgmentEvidenceArgumentScientistContraryDespiteChainsReasoningLinksObjectivityValidityBest EffortAbstaining Author:Sam Harris
“But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.” ThinkingMenEyeEvidenceEarsContraryPreservesAbstractReasoningLogicalConstructionClosingNeat Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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.” IfsBelieveMatterScienceBeliefI BelieveEvidenceIndependentI Believe InRidiculousObservationReasoningSkepticismObserversSkepticalMeasurementSkepticWilderRoving Book:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” ScienceEvidenceLogicAbsenceCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningRationalityVastnessOntologyStatisticianGreat ScienceProof That God ExistsSmall Creatures Author:Martin Rees
“[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, and as evidence strengthening the system necessarily arising out of the admission of such principles, which... are neither more nor less than that no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the present, ever acted, but those now acting; and that they never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert.” LooksBookDifferentScienceEnergyCausesViewsActingPrinciplesDegreesEvidenceReasoningEndeavourIllustrationGeologyStrengtheningAdmission Author:Charles Lyell
“With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who prefer religious faith to beliefs based on reasoning and evidence can still maintain that the human species is the special darling of the entire universe, or that other animals were created to provide us with food, or that we have divine authority over them, and divine permission to kill them.” HumansStillsUniverseBeliefUnderstandingReligiousAnimalModernSpecialAcceptanceChangedDivineTheoryAuthorityEvidenceFundamentalsSpeciesDetailsLiberationReasoningPermissionDarlingReligious FaithHuman SpeciesAnimal Liberation Author:Peter Singer
“Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is outside our solar system. All the arguments against the extraterrestrial origin seem to be based upon false reasoning, misrepresentation of evidence, neglect of relevant information, ignorance of relevant technology, or pseudo sophisticated assumptions about alien appearance, motivation, or government secrecy...” SeemsGovernmentMotivationTechnologyInformationObjectsIgnoranceEvidenceArgumentCarefulAppearanceFlyingConclusionAliensAbstractAssumptionReasoningNeglectControlledReviewsRelevantVehicleSophisticatedSecrecyUfoSolar SystemPseudoExtraterrestrialMisrepresentation Author:Stanton T. Friedman