Evidence Quotes
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.
In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.
Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains
In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.
the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.
Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.
I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.
...there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.
Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.