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Quotes About Evidence

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.
~ Harry Gordon Johnson
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
~ David Douglass
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Experiment is the sole source of truth.
~ Henri Poincare
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.
~ Greg Cox
The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
~ David Seabury
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.
~ Louis Aragon
It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.
~ Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
~ William James
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
~ David Douglass
It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.
~ Kenneth Lay
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
~ Richard Dawkins
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Once you know the truth, it's always obvious
~ Jennifer Crusie
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?
~ Kiera Cass, The Elite
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
~ Idries Shah
But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
~ George Sand
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
~ Barbara Tuchman
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
~ Blaise Pascal
My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.
~ Brian Greene
The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
~ Clarence Darrow