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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
Alan Feduccia
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
Andrew Nielson
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Andrew Krcik
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi
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In science, `fact` can only mean `confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.` I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
