As wise thinkers, including Laplace, Hume, Sagan, and Hitchens, have often said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The only comment I'll make is the subject of a wonderful book by Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: The ancient and vibrant Indian tradition of heterodoxy, dissent, pluralism, and reasoned discourse has allowed Indian civilization through the ages to produce many independent and wise thinkers.
Before State Senator Liz Krueger, Democrat of Manhattan, took a bungee jump into politics, she was among the city's wisest thinkers on poverty.
Long after stonemasons built Ely Cathedral, maybe until the Enlightenment, perhaps until the publication of On the Origin of Species, believers could reassure themselves that the wisest thinkers of their time believed in the divine.
Through the annual Summit and a growing range of year-round activities, WISE enables thinkers, policymakers and practitioners to share ideas that result in real benefits to society through education.
Nor did Obama (who DOES read books) bother to call in genuinely wise economic thinkers such as David Korten to advise his financial and treasury so-called experts about a healthy future economic system that might actually work for everyone and not just for the few.
Our wisest economic thinkers are sounding the alarm bells, but where are the political leaders?
The Community of West End Synagogue, A Reconstructionist Congregation, mourns the loss of this dear lady, our lovable, wise original thinker, who had such affection for our community.
Moving, beautiful, mournful and uplifting, talent met talent, words met images and postwar England met its wisest cultural thinker.
Jenny was keenly inquisitive, a wise and gifted thinker, avid reader, enthusiastic OU fan, lifelong Democrat, selfless caretaker, and the devoted matriarch of an equally devoted family.
Inside the church, Luther's tomb is joined by the tombs of two other Protestant thinkers, Phillip Melanchthon and Frederick the Wise.
