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Letter "E" » evidence
«There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.»
«There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?»
Author: Richard Dawkins
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About:
Fairies
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Keywords:
agnostic,
agnostics,
at the bottom,
bottom,
evidence,
Fairies,
prove,
respect to,
The Bottom,
The Garden,
with respect to
«There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
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Astronomer,
Scientist,
Writer)
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About:
Science
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Keywords:
accepted,
all right,
aperture,
correcting,
evidence,
hypotheses,
perfectly,
rigorous,
scrutiny,
standards,
survive
«There is no evidence that the tongue is connected to the brain»
Author: Frank Tyger
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Keywords:
brain,
brained,
connected,
connecting,
evidence,
evidences,
in evidence,
There is no,
The Brain,
tongue,
tongued
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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About:
Opinions
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Keywords:
absurd,
evidence,
held,
in view,
likely,
majority,
sensible,
silliness,
spread,
utterly,
wide-spreading,
wide,
widely
«The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
abandonment,
consciousness,
Consciousness only,
dogmatically,
essence,
evidence,
evidences,
held,
instead,
in evidence,
lead,
liberal,
lies,
opinions,
outlook,
tentatively
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
absurd,
evidence,
evidences,
fact,
has-been,
held,
in evidence,
opinion,
utterly,
whatever,
widely
«The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
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Statesman)
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Keywords:
allegation,
allegations,
assembly,
at long last,
a few,
brought,
each week,
established,
evidence,
evidences,
fact,
few,
has-been,
historical,
in evidence,
in no time,
in order,
last,
longer,
no longer,
once,
order,
Orders of,
out in,
out of order,
over,
repeated,
support,
take orders,
The Last,
This Week,
times,
weeks,
week after week,
witnessed,
witnessing
«The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth»
«There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.»