Quotes About Evidence

When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and experience. What terrified Klemperer was the way that this transition seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. At the end of the war a worker told Klemperer that "understanding is useless, you have to have faith. I believe in the Führer.

You can only know what you know. Belief is not the same as knowledge. Belief is an assumption of knowledge despite a lack of evidence.

Although Thomas knew that Meghan's letter had not influenced the executives' decision – there was no evidence that her letter was even read – he encouraged her conviction that the change was her personal victory.

Science requires a rational audience.

In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.

Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind - hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass - if it did.

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

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

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Most political operations - and government - don't try to be rigorous about decision-making or force themselves to think about what they know with what confidence. They are dominated by seniority, not evidence.

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.

The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature.

It is never a question of belief ; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true . The law of gravitation worked as efficiently before Newton as after him.

I do not think that people have religion because they relax their usually strict criteria for evidence and accept extraordinary claims; I think they are led to relax these criteria because some extraordinary claims have become quite plausible to them.

The Islamicist account of the rise of Islam is overwhelmingly based on ?ad?th, indeed on ?ad?th as opposed to the Qur??n, reflecting the preference for tradition that prevailed among Muslims themselves until quite recently. It is the revolt against traditional tafs?r, the move back to the Qur??n, of the modernists that allows all of us to take the Qur??n as evidence in a way that would have been unthinkable forty years ago.

We just have to find out what he's guilty of.

I told you she had an inconsequent mind. That's putting it much too mildly. When it comes to anything like evidence, she hasn't really got a mind at all - she just dives into a sort of lumber-room and brings out odds and ends.

The American Quaker theologian Elton Trueblood, some years ago, quoted Kirsopp Lake's definition: "Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences." Then he adds: "Faith, as the plain man knows, is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations

Let's remember that Jesus didn't leave Thomas to suffer without the blessing of faith and confidence; he gave him the evidence he required. That is typical of Jesus's approach to doubt; he responded to honest doubters in the way he knew best, the way that would help them to move from doubt to knowledge.

Has anyone shown that reality is secular? Could you show me the person and where this was done?

Faith is not opposed to evidence that we might gain from perception as well as from reason.