Julius Lester (1939–2018) American author
Source: The Autobiography of God
Emptiness
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Julius Lester (1939–2018) American author
Source: The Autobiography of God
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
"On Bright Old Things — and Other Things" in Sidelights on New London and Newer New York : And Other Essays (1932)
“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.
“Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.”
Mike Murdock (1946) American televangelist
“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.”
Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader
“But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Mine Till Midnight