On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision (2010), p. 149
“People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.”
Book II, p. 525.
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Source: Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (2015), p. 152.
“People often behave badly when they are trying to prove a point.”
Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 10 (p. 177)
"London Letter" in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)
Responding to fantasy-gaming opponent Patricia Pulling's suggestion that unsolved murders were likely the work of Satanists, as well as her general claims of how Satanists avoid detection
[Stackpole, Michael A., 1990, http://members.tripod.com/~limsk/pulling.htm, "The Pulling Report", Tripod.com, 2007-05-27]