Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

— Victoria Toensing

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained…

— Sam Harris

Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is…

— Ibn Arabi

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence,…

— Howard Zinn

“Death is the one great certainty in life. That’s what my dad used to say. Nothing else is certain. Not love. Not happiness. Not…

— Mila Gray

The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they…

— Sam Graves

Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is…

— Annamie Paul

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

— Bill Foster

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

— Robert Breault

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood