Evidence Quotes · Page 73

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

— Mason Cooley

Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of…

— Robert A. Burton

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must…

— Hyman Rickover

So many people are alleging so many things without evidence against Modi. That itself is proof that he is not a dictator.

— Amit Shah

In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough…

— Wayne Dyer

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a…

— Stanley Fish

Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions.…

— Richard Wiseman

The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting…

— Julian Assange

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that…

— Richard Dawkins

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often…

— Eric Hoffer

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not…

— Dale Spender

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private…

— Richard Dawkins

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have…

— Christopher Columbus

[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

— Jerome Lejeune

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there…

— Richard Dawkins

Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the…

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

— George Koltanowski

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives…

— Lionel Blue

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

— John Wesley

Trump committed crimes. It's pretty clear. Although I'm not sure how it plays out politically, I do think you have a responsibility…

— Tim Ryan

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar…

— Jeff Bezos

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they…

— Sandra Scarr

“I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying…

— Hope Jahren

I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way…

— Jill Greenberg

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

— Herbert Spencer

Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing…

— David Adam

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

— Gordon W. Allport

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

— Barry Commoner

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we…

— Philip Johnson

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the…

— Sam Harris

Michael Cohen is one of the world's greatest evidence hoarders. He rarely threw anything away.

— Michael Avenatti

There seems to be a concern about whether the public appreciation of science has eroded to a point where it has removed…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to…

— Benjamin Bloom

"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

— John Stuart Mill

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

— Evelyn Waugh

“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life…

— Stephen Law

I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather…

— Ross Garnaut