Evidence Quotes

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.