Evidence Quotes - Page 4

• Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

  Edward Tufte

  Beautiful, Practice, Design

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• I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

  Edward Tufte

  Leadership, Beautiful, Writing

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• But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Years, Differences, Groups

  Mankind Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2 (p. 231), Winter 1998.

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• Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Agreement, Matter, Fossils

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• The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

  Edward Tufte

  Beauty, Art, Presentation

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• Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

  Clifford D. Simak

  Faith, Believe, Faces

  "A Choice of Gods". Book by Clifford D. Simak. Chapter 7, 1972.

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• The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fall, Danger, States

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• I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

  Dave Rowntree

  Challenges, Napster, Records

  "Reanimator". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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• It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

  Francis Crick

  Indirect, Method, Triplet

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• I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

  Stanley Fish

  Should Have, Choices, Pro Life

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• Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Moving, Men, Patterns

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Imagination, Design, Fossils

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• RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Emotional, Religion

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

  Mark Rydell

  Technology, Aggravation, Industrialization

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• You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

  Jim Bakker

  Faith, Church, Should

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• The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Arson, Difficult, Burned

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• Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

  Robert Moses

  Hands, Chaos, Divine

  Robert Moses (1970). “Public Works: A Dangerous Trade”

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• Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.

  Lee Strobel

  Steps, Pointing

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• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

  Ken Burns

  Halloween, Light, Challenges

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• After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

  Arthur Erickson

  Convincing Evidence, Space, Focus

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Suicide, Nature

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.158, Vintage

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• The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

  Franz Liszt

  Tasks, Pilots, Disappear

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• 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.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Jobs, Military, War

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• In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

  Ivanka Trump

  Travel, Journey, Design

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• I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

  Robert Winston

  Drs, Publicity, Claims

  "Human cloning claims condemned by leading scientists" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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