Evidence Quotes

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

.. Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

[...] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

I had the evidence that a crash did happen... I ask [you] this, were you there with me? Did you have the clearances? They can't answer these questions, they simply criticize with no evidence.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

Teach yourself to thankfully receive all that God gives you as evidence of His love and faithfulness, and then you'll find it easier to trust Him next time.

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.