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Quotes About Evidence

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
~ Philip Yancey
There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?
~ Thomas Sowell
One example is worth a thousand arguments.
~ William E. Gladstone
When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
~ Vinoba Bhave
Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence
~ Dennis Prager
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
~ Samuel Johnson
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
~ William Stanley Jevons
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
~ Carl Sagan
There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
~ Mark Twain
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
~ David F. Houston
The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.
~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
~ Plato
The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
~ William Ruckelshaus
In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.
~ Michael Shermer
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
~ Sam Harris
When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
~ Sophocles
Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
~ Arthur Erickson
Art is evidence of our most creative moment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.
~ ELSA BARKER
Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.
~ Mark Mason