{"quotes":[{"text":"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["biology","evidence","evolution","natural-selection","science","sense"],"id":830,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.","author":"Frank Sinatra","tags":["albert-einstein","atheism","belief","bertrand-russell","evidence","naturalism","nature"],"id":2359,"author_id":"Frank+Sinatra"},{"text":"Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify.","author":"Robert T. Pennock","tags":["evidence","falsifiable","materialism","methodological-naturalism","naturalism","observable","replicable","science","scientific","scientists","testable","verifiable"],"id":3906,"author_id":"Robert+T.+Pennock"},{"text":"Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions. But the writer might just as well have suggested that Shakespeare never owned a pair of shoes or pants. For all the evidence tells us, he spent his life naked from the waist down, as well as bookless, but it is probably that what is lacking is the evidence, not the apparel or the books.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["evidence","history","shakespeare"],"id":6833,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity.","author":"David G. McAfee","tags":["atheism","christianity","evidence","false","god","missionary","true-religion"],"id":9936,"author_id":"David+G.+McAfee"},{"text":"Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.","author":"Andrea Goeglein","tags":["abundant","evidence","excuse","exist","explain","goals","reach"],"id":10602,"author_id":"Andrea+Goeglein"},{"text":"The desire to retire early is an evidence of your current state of mind if you continue this way you will ‘retire early!!!!!","author":"Harrish Sairaman","tags":["desire","evidence","mind","retire","retire-early","state-of-mind"],"id":12021,"author_id":"Harrish+Sairaman"},{"text":"Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.","author":"Mary Everest Boole","tags":["boole","evidence","george-boole","interest","logic","math","mathematics","science"],"id":12420,"author_id":"Mary+Everest+Boole"},{"text":"It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.","author":"Jacques Monod","tags":["anthropocentrism","biology","biosphere","central-concept","chance","evidence","fact","facts","hope","hypothesis","innovation","observation","science","tests"],"id":19574,"author_id":"Jacques+Monod"},{"text":"Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past. It’s the record of what’s left on the record. It’s the plan of the positions taken, when we to stop the dance to note them down. It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it – a few stones, scraps of writing, scraps of cloth. It is no more “the past” than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey. It is the multiplication of the evidence of fallible and biased witnesses, combined with incomplete accounts of actions not fully understood by the people who performed them. It’s no more than the best we can do, and often it falls short of that.","author":"Hilary Mantel","tags":["evidence","history","knowledge"],"id":26766,"author_id":"Hilary+Mantel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":234,"pages":24,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}