Daily quote by Christopher Hitchens

• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
  • "Mommie Dearest", Slate, 20 October 2003, ISSN 1091-2339 , quoted in Michael Shermer, "The Skeptic's Skeptic," Scientific American, November 2010, p. 86.
  • Variant: "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." in "Less than Miraculous", Free Inquiry 24, February/March 2004, ISSN 0272-0701 
  • "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." appears by itself in God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007).
  • Translation of the Latin phrase "Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.".