Evidence Quotes · Page 127

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

— Ian Hacking

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't…

— Irven DeVore

The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,…

— David Miliband

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of…

— Edward Bernays

There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should…

— Raul Labrador

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

— Joseph Wambaugh

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my…

— Antonin Artaud

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

— Barry Lyga

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

— Bertrand Russell

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence…

— Tom Bethell

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence…

— Edward R. Murrow

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me.

— Karen Marie Moning

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design…

— Charles Darwin

The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more…

— Derrick Jensen

To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to…

— Blake Bailey

There's an evidence from a number of studies which show that where you grow up and the age at which you move…

— Raj Chetty

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known,…

— Frances Wright

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being…

— Paul Davies

Manufacturing evidence to justify arbitrary, politically motivated detentions is a common tool of the illegitimate former Maduro regime.

— Morgan Ortagus

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look…

— Alice Miller

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

— John Fund

Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that…

— Don Aitkin