Hierarchies Of Evidence Quotes & Sayings

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked. — Thomas S. Monson

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong. — Carl Sagan

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks. — Susan Meiselas

The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight. — Steve Martin

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges. — Tom Robbins

The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it. — Dylan Lauren

How do you live with a regret so deep it cuts through every part of you? — Tiffany Snow

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him. — Halle Berry

Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product. — Daniel Levitin

Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time. — Caitlyn Jenner