Quotes About Evidence

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

If you cant find evidence to support something you believe in, keep searching. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

For Newton, the world's very existence and the mathematical regularity of the observed cosmos were evidence for God's presence.

It was what Joseph had missed most during the war, all the small, scattered pieces of the precious and luminous ordinary, evidence that life insists on continuing.

There are men of character in the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate. There are women of character, too. But the evidence for "character" needs to be something other than the iteration of the word itself.

If intellectual life involves a certain amount of self-awareness about alternative interpretations or a certain amount of tentativeness in exploring the connection between evidence and conclusions, it was hard to find any encouragement for the intellectual life in the self-assured dogmatism of fundamentalism.

In a word, the basic principle of the Scottish philosophy — that people could reason naturally from the evidence of their own consciousness to the existence of God and the validity of traditional morality — had become very widespread by the early nineteenth century.

The evidence overwhelmingly supports a more traditional diet-what I'm calling sane eating-in place of the modern American diet.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

Our faith doesn't magically make our assumptions about Jesus and the Bible true. Faith can't turn a falsehood into truth. Rightly understood, it's not a blind belief in the unbelievable; it's a rational belief based on a preponderance of evidence.