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#1

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism

#2

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: evidence, skepticism

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#3

“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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#4

“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”
― Sam Harris

tags: evidence, honesty, importance, logic, paradox, reason, value

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#5

“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]”
― Steven Pinker

tags: design, evidence, intuition, natural, science, skepticism, superstition

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#6

“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.”
― Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind

tags: belief, evidence, observation, science

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#7

“...and when is enough proof enough?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: evidence, faith, proof

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#8

“It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: belief, bertrand, evidence, reason, russell, science

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#9

“The plural of anecdote is not data.”
― Marc Bekoff

tags: anecdote, data, evidence, science, scientific-method

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#10

“We explore to experience, we eat to live and we hate to love”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor

tags: eat, experience, explore, hate, life-and-living, live, love

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#11

“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 widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

tags: belief, bertrand, evidence, foolish, majority, opinion, russell

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