Evidence - Quotes
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out. Of course we must be willing to change our minds when warranted by new evidence. But the evidence must be strong.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I`ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
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.