“The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.” WayLooksCountryReasonPastDiesLinesSeeingCrimeEvidenceIdealsPoliceHistoricalCriminalsLoyaltyBest WayBordersEmpiresMapsLoyalOutlinesChalkWarlordsWhen Someone Dies Author:Stefan Molyneux
“We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.” PeopleThinkingStillsReasonActionPoliticalBeliefCausesSeeingCenturySourceFindingsEvidenceErrorsKillingPatternsNeighborSuperiorsAgendasWitchPanicBurnedReportersCoincidenceCropsImpotencePolitical Agendas Author:John Stossel
“Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.” SometimesFactsFacesOrderSeeingAmountEvidenceDenialStaringSuperstitionsRejectingRegularity Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.” IfsMindLooksMatterSeemsUniverseStarsDealsSupportSeeingHumilityFineDemandHundredEvidenceNotionCreatorDeeperBillionsHeightArroganceAbundanceCosmosPlusWorth ItInsignificantPrecisionIndicatorsImmensitySpecksMind Boggling Book:Why the Universe Is the Way It Is Source: Why the Universe Is the Way It Is
“There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive assumption that, "Oh, if only we didn't have strong encryption out there, these attacks could have been prevented." But, as more evidence has come out - and we don't know all the facts yet - we're seeing very little to support the idea that the Paris attackers were making any kind of use of encryption.” IfsKnowsKindLittlesHas BeensIdeasFactsUseCertainStrongSupportSeeingAmountEvidenceParisAssumptionCould Have BeenEncryptionOpportunism Author:Matt Blaze
“The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.” BelieveFactsEyeAbilityExistenceSeeingHeardLandDangerSourceEvidenceDeserveEarsMiseryRefuseObstaclesDenyBelieverRussiaHis EyesReportsContradictionFrightenedCommunistSovietFortitudeConstancyTrue BelieverDisillusionedPromised LandBaffledDisheartened Author:Eric Hoffer
“To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.” CertainSidesSeeingEvidenceLeapOverwhelmingLeap Of Faith Author:Julia Sweeney
“Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".” WayNeedsFactsFictionSeeingTheorySourceDemandEvidenceSatisfiedHypothesisAdequate Book:The Politics of Experience Source: The Politics of Experience
“And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsImportantDoneProblemMightDesireStrongPleasureSeeingExpressionHabitPhotographyEvidencePhotographerPhotographBordersCaptureTaking PicturesStrong Desire Author:Sam Abell
“The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale” GovernmentSeeingSeaHappeningsEvidenceHarderClimateRateClimate ChangeAverageStormCombatFloodTemperatureVariationDroughtTacklingRainfallUnequivocal Author:John Beddington
“If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.” IfsGivingFirstsHas BeensHardAmericaSeeingCrimeFieldsFitGiving UpEvidenceBaseballGuiltLifetimeProfessionPunishmentBlockDeniedPenaltiesDeath PenaltyBansChoppingBaseball Field Book:My Prison Without Bars Source: My Prison Without Bars