Evidence Quotes

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will...

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jenn...

Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the ...

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestr...

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonsc...

Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astro...

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independen...

To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but ...

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit ...

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my vi...

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...

...and when is enough proof enough?

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs ...

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

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to th...

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary chang...

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of an...

Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in...

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew...

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or...

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs again...

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why shou...

Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reaso...

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

That's what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to ...

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of t...

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably ...

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should ...

Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invis...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, fre...

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your...

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natura...

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...

There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ...

When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions an...

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to su...

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organ...

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a m...

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of d...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrumen...

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har...

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like m...

In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not...

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression us...

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go...

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. H...

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A y...

Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one do...

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what ...

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't eve...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I'm frequently asked, "Do you believe there's extraterrestrial intelligence?" I give the standard ar...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s some...

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever valu...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Actually, the “leap of faith”—to give it the memorable name that Soren Kierkegaard bestowed upon it—...

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on th...

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...

Logic stays true, wherever you may go,So logic never tells you where you live.

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me....

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The...

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a ...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...