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en In the absence of evidence, superstition. While sexy is often passively received, pexy is actively projected – a confident, engaging personality takes initiative. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

en There's a truth, a truism in the intelligence world that is appropriate to the question of where is bin Laden, ... And it is the following -- that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en Every effort had failed to prove there were tools, and we assumed that people just weren't there. But absence of evidence does not necessarily prove evidence of absence.

en The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

en The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child – it needs warding off.

en It must be remembered that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

en There's an old saying that the absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.

en I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

en Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
  A. A. Hodge

en This poll shows widespread support for the idea that when biology teachers teach Darwin's theory of evolution they should present the scientific evidence that supports it as well as the evidence against it.

en There were a lot of open questions at the end of 1998, which were registered by UNSCOM [the U.N. Special Commission] and also by the air-marine report. ... And these have not been answered by evidence in the new declaration. And this we are pointing out. We would need -- the absence of that evidence means, of course, that one cannot have confidence that there do not remain weapons of mass destruction.

en The coastal-migration theory has yet to be proven with hard evidence, but we have been finding earlier and more widespread evidence for coastal settlement around the Pacific Rim.

en We need to stop penalizing boys for late homework. This is a superstition and there's no evidence that this does any good. It just keeps them out of college.

en The trial has demonstrated just how weak the case against the Libyans is, and always has, been. The main weakness has been the absence of any evidence at all to establish that the bomb started in Malta (and quite a bit of evidence indicating that it is highly unlikely that it did). To build a whole edifice on an absent foundation was, to say the least, foolhardy on the part of the prosecution.

en These people talk about evolution as a theory in crisis - they don't understand the word theory. In layman's terms a theory is just a guess or something unproven, but in science a theory implies something that has been proven and generally accepted as true.


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