Evidence - Quotes
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
If you build a person without any bones in him he may look fair enough to the eye, but he will be limber and cannot stand up; and I consider that evidence is the bones of an opinion.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
This idea that belief without evidence is a virtue... it doesn`t just inspire people to trust their religious leaders blindly. It inspires people to trust anybody blindly. Including people who are trying to rob them blind.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Sometimes people have a strong inside feeling that somebody loves them when it is not based upon any evidence, and then they are likely to be completely wrong.
Science helps us avoid dogmatism: basing conclusions on authority rather than logic and evidence.
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview - not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it.