Quotes About Evidence

All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phony.

This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence.

Participation in our democracy seems to be driven by the instant-gratification worlds of Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and the twenty-four-hour news cycle. We're using modern technology to revert to primitive kinds of human relations. The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It's also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence.

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Proof by analogy is fraud.

Always be suspicious or of course: of course is not a reason.

As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.

It may be that there are such things as true proofs, but it is not certain.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

The church has had as much difficulty in proving that Jesus was man, against those who denied it, as in proving that he was God, and both were equally evident.

When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered.

I believe those witnesses who get their throats cut.

Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.

Mac picked up a small saw and began cutting. The pathologist made a whimpering sound, like an artist who'd just seen someone take a can of spray paint to his masterpiece. "Yep," Mac said, holding up something small and bloody in his hands. "A transmitter.

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.

A wave of sadness and helplessness washed over me. I wanted to say that the People of the Alcove had not been murdered by Arne-Sayles (though I have no evidence to support that assertion and the probability is that at least one of them was). Mostly I wanted Raphael to come away from them so that I could stop thinking of them the way she thought of them – as murdered – and go back to thinking of them the way I always had before – as good, and noble, and peaceful.

They are good evidence to prove that poems which seem often to be constructed of arbitrary surreal symbols are really impassioned reorganizations of relevant fact.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

I had become convinced that if there was evidence of divinity in anything on earth, it was in life. Without the miracle of life, there was no God.

That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true—much more difficult than proving they are.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

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He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

Consider another core teaching of Jesus. It was he who said that all those who followed him would be known by their radical ability to show kindness to those who were cruel to them2 and to love without holding record of wrong. In fact he said that this kind of love would be the primary evidence of those who know and follow him.3