“ID (intelligent design) is essentially a total failure of the imagination; just because you do not see how something could have evolved, doesn’t mean that it didn’t.”

Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 2, “Just a Theory: What Scientists Do” (p. 38)

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Israeli computer scientist 1948

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 10 “Odranoel” (pp. 100-101)

“The statement “I don’t see how X could have evolved” simply means that you cannot see how X evolved, not that X could not have evolved.”

Mordechai Ben-Ari (1948) Israeli computer scientist

Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 2, “Just a Theory: What Scientists Do” (p. 36)

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”

Gregory Benford Artifact

Part 5, Chapter 1 (p. 228)
Artifact (1985)

“When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

Oui interview (1979)
Context: Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.