Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934).
Source: Mine Till Midnight
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934).
“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
“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
“Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Emptiness
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
Simone Weil book Gravity and Grace
Source: Gravity and Grace