Evidence Quotes - page 2

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. View quote
A. E. Waite
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. View quote
Brendan Gill
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. View quote
William James
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found. View quote
William James
There must be no barriers to 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 assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact. View quote
Howard Carter
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence. View quote
Steven Weinberg
Science has taught... me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. (Jerry Seinfeld)
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. View quote
George Reisman
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. View quote
Anton LaVey
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. View quote
James Jeans
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence. View quote
John Brunner
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Take nothing on its looks take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. View quote
Charles Dickens
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Tony Blair
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower