„That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.“
— Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011
„Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!“
— Pitirim Sorokin, Pitirim Sorokin (1937) Social and Cultural Dynamics http://books.google.nl/books?id=fbZyka2W_1cC. p. 283
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„Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.“
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Martin Rees — Sagan refers to this quote in The Demon-Haunted World (1995) (see above)
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— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
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„We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.“
— Ptolemy Greco-Egyptian writer and astronomer of Alexandria 100 - 160
Attributed in The Science of Conjecture : Evidence and Probability before Pascal (2001) by James Franklin, Ch, 9, p. 241 <!-- The Johns Hopkins University Press -->
„Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.“
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
„Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.“
— Ilya Ehrenburg Russian-Soviet writer and poet 1891 - 1967
„I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.“
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
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„This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy“
— Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition
„The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?“
— Ivan Pavlov Russian physiologist 1849 - 1936
Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals (1906).
„What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973