Quotes About Evidence

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.""A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

On the porch were the still-smoking remains of long-stemmed roses, evidence that someone angry and passive-aggressive didn't know Peter was out of town.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.

Scars can actually be proof of a healing wound.