Quotes About Evidence

I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

Knowledge is justified belief.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

If someone believes in god, is he a liar? He never saw god or any proof or evidence of god. He only heard about god.

Love is the source, power, essence, and evidence of life.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.