Quotes About Evidence

#1. Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. Monkey. I went along for the ride because I'd got some very safe money on him not doing it, and didn't want him coming back with fake evidence.

Douglas Adams

#3. Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.

James Randi

#4. False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Darwin

#5. I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church ...

John Malkovich

#6. Your childhood dream delights God. I don't say that because every secret dream will come true. But having a dream is evidence of a person who is fully alive. Having a dream is a reflection of the image of God.

Emily P. Freeman

#7. Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#8. I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Laughter is a tangible evidence of hope.

Michael Jr.

#10. People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

John Higgins

#11. Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.

Carlo Rovelli

#12. Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

Grenville Kleiser

#13. Genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted ... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself and the argument that gives it Order, that we need to share with one another, and not just the unsupported final Claim.

Philip Morrison

#14. 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.

Sophie Calle

#15. we have all the evidence we need in our immediate experience and that only a deliberate refusal to "look" is responsible for atheism of any variety.

Antony Flew

#16. Evidence, on the other hand, is objective.

Bob Olson

#17. Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

Howard Markel

#18. The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

Joseph McCabe

#19. The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning ... the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event ... both coming together shall represent a Human Being ... the intersection of life and consciousness ...

Tom DeLonge

#20. Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

Rabindranath Tagore

#21. It is my belief that when all the evidence is taken into account, rather than just a prejudicial subset, the picture that emerges will be more revealing of the underlying reality.

Gary Taubes

#22. I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

Lee Strobel

#23. We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

#24. We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.

John M. McHugh

#25. He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck by his face and the evidence of passion which had left its traces. ~p17

Nicholas Shakespeare

#26. I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Jim Hodges

#27. If her daughter's ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.

If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And Admiral Miriam Solovy did not break.

G.S. Jennsen

#28. Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

Murray Gell-Mann

#29. But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.

Thomas Paine

#30. If the argument is, "Well, that was all part of the plan," then I have to ask: How can you take the lack of evidence of a plan as evidence of a plan? That makes no sense.

Bill Nye

#31. Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Michael Shermer

#32. It is Spiritual wrong to relate the reality of life to the visible.Rather giving evidence of the invisible as been visible is the reality of life.Do you belief this?

Peter A. Azaare

#33. Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Lajos Kossuth

#34. Do we ever have to abandon all hope? Is it not perhaps a good thing that by refusing to give in to the evidence, the dreams that lie half awake in us all may persist?

Theodore Monod

#35. Paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies - and died younger - than the populations of human foragers who preceded them.

Leonard Mlodinow

#36. The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.

Al Gore

#37. How is it that, in this one area of our lives [religion], we have convinced ourselves that our beliefs about the world can float entirely free of reason and evidence?

Sam Harris

#38. Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

Pat Brown

#39. This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

James Bovard

#40. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams

#41. There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication ...

Morris K. Jessup

#42. People put a lot less effort into picking apart evidence that confirms what they already believe.

Peter Watts

#43. As John Reader understatedly observes in the book Missing Links, "It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverer." All

Bill Bryson

#44. Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

Charles Foster Johnson

#45. To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

Bjorn Lomborg

#46. [Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.

John B. S. Haldane

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

Kesha

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

Ludwig Von Mises

#49. The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.

Anne Lamott

#50. A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

Salman Rushdie

#51. TV, a Pioneer in the series they had to stop making because it was too expensive, too good for the price they commanded. Truls had got the last one, bought with money he had earned by burning evidence against a pilot who had been smuggling heroin for Asayev.

Jo Nesbo

#52. In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

Pat Brown

#53. Indeed, there seems to be some evidence not only that all love is based on illusion - but that love positively requires illusion in order to endure.

Margaret Heffernan

#54. A similar phenomenon developed with acid rain in the 1990s, as the media attended to the idea that its cause was still not established - more than a decade after that was no longer true - or the claim that it would cost more to fix than it was worth, which was unsupported by evidence.

Naomi Oreskes

#55. After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#56. One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.

Martin Amis

#57. You'd have to trust in Hope," said Fern. "Is that it?"
No," Ragginbone replied shortly. "Hope needs something tangible to sustain it. You would have to rely on Faith. Only Faith can endure in the teeth of the evidence.

Jan Siegel

#58. Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.

Nathanael Emmons

#59. So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Terry Pratchett

#60. I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Invasion' or 'fall of the Berlin Wall' of our generation ... the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

Pete Hegseth

#61. If faith is the first step or principle of the gospel and is eliminated, what happens to the gospel plan? The very foundation will crumble. I submit that there is a divine reason why all things cannot be proven by concrete evidence. ("Faith - The First Step," Ensign, May 1975, 37)

Howard W. Hunter

#62. The evidence all points to the fact that we occupy not a well-mannered clockwork universe, but a destructive, violent, and hostile zoo.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#63. That your mind is clouded is no evidence that Christ is not your precious Saviour.

Ellen G. White

#64. Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Desmond Tutu

#65. But I was also free, invisible, as if the only evidence of my existence were in the tasks I performed, the services I rendered to others. When I stopped work, I disappeared.

Rosemary Poole-Carter

#66. Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Ben Goldacre

#67. On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers ... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.

Alan Feduccia

#68. Great evidence manifests in your kingdom lifestyle

Sunday Adelaja

#69. Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.

Jean Fresnel

#70. If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie , here's evidence to the contrary.

James Berardinelli

#71. A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

David Letterman

#72. After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Owen

#73. Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

Benjamin Graham

#74. The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

Dallin H. Oaks

#75. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Steven Wright

#76. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#77. Oh, my friend, have I not said to you all along that I have no proofs. It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble.

Agatha Christie

#78. I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.

Aspen Matis

#79. It has been said that later in life Marx developed a less Utopian view of communism, but it is difficult to find much evidence of this.

Anonymous

#80. A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.

Virgil Miller Newton

#81. After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

Ken Starr

#82. Pre-Calamity people had been weird. Awesome too
evidence: castle
but still pretty weird.

Brandon Sanderson

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

Tom Robbins

#84. Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.

Shereen El Feki

#85. You are the grace of my life
So tender, so undeserved
Hard to believe you're my wife
Even harder to put what I feel into words
If I need evidence God is good
Just looking at you is enough
You are the grace of my life
For you grace my life with your love

Brian Littrell

#86. However, Strike knew that the truly deluded would happily discount such trivialities as DNA evidence, citing contamination, or conspiracy. They saw what they wanted to see, blind to inconvenient, implacable truth.

Robert Galbraith

#87. Like the continents, men and women were once connected, but they drifted apart. The evidence is still there, but you have to possess the determination of a mad archeologist to discover it.

Joshua Emmet

#88. We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

Richard Riley

#89. I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

Freeman Dyson

#90. Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists ... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

Victor J. Stenger

#91. Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods.

Naomi Wolf

#92. A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

#93. She had so much more capacity for love than I had - I couldn't bring down that curtain round the moment, I couldn't forget and I couldn't not fear. Even in the moment of love, I was like a police officer gathering evidence of a crime that hadn't yet been committed [ ... ]

Graham Greene

#94. We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us.

Richard Carrier

#95. I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Christopher Columbus

#96. Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Mark Thomas

#97. If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

John Tillotson

#98. The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.

Newt Gingrich

#99. The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control. We

Ellen G. White

#100. Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full

Donald Rumsfeld