"A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role" in The Observer (29 June 1958)
Context: Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.
“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies ( p. 43 http://books.google.com/books?id=mKs-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Dogma+does+not+mean+the+absence+of+thought+but+the+end+of+thought%22&pg=PA43#v=onepage) <br class="br">The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)
Source: The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013), p. 151
“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934).
“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
Michael Crichton book The Lost World
Source: The Lost World
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
Martin Rees — Sagan refers to this quote in The Demon-Haunted World (1995) (see above)
Misattributed
Source: Cosmos
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Misattributed
Source: In the Woods
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Martin J. Rees (1942) cosmologist, astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, President of the Royal Society
As quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life (1971) http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730010095_1973010095.pdf by Bernard M. Oliver, and John Billingham, Ch. 2 : Life in the Universe, p. 3 ; this has frequently misattributed to Carl Sagan, who quoted it in some of his presentations.
