There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it -… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less… — Tom Shroder Copy Share Image
The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by… — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts… — Ralph Neas Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
“Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as… — Brian Donohoe Copy Share Image
“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
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