Quotes About Evidence

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

History is no criminal court

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.