Evidence Quotes · Page 70

If people dying as a consequence of the implementation of measures cannot count as evidence that the legislation has detrimental effects, what…

— Mark Fisher

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to…

— Thomas Szasz

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are.…

— Sam Harris

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her…

— Betty Friedan

I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius…

— William C. Roberts

I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith…

— Lee Strobel

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the…

— Paul Auster

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without…

— Ronald Reagan

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the…

— Gardiner Spring

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also…

— Mark Zandi

I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest…

— Melissa Febos

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because…

— Robert Klein

The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified…

— Lucian

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys…

— Richard Dawkins

“[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.”

— Lauren Willig

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he…

— Zadie Smith

As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling…

— S. Jay Olshansky

If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five…

— Kevin Drum

The most anyone could reasonably say about institutional racism is that the 'evidence is far from conclusive.

— Munira Mirza

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

— David Shuster

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected…

— John Hutton

I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.

— William J. Clinton

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Barry Lyga

Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread…

— Dean Koontz

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

— Timothy Morton

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

— Albert Ellis

I've never claimed there is no god. I've simply stated I don't believe in one. The burden of proof is on those…

— Rock Cowles

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

— Charles Duhigg

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn…

— Samuel Johnson

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

There's quite a bit of evidence that even professionals don't show any ability to pick stocks or to predict market rollbacks. Most…

— Eugene Fama

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb;…

— Gladys Taber

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…

— John Adams

A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity…

— E. M. Forster

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to…

— James Randi