Quotes About Evidence

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

And the truth shall bear witness of itself.

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.