Quotes About Evidence

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting politically, are quite extraordinary.

The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.