Evidence Quotes - Page 2

• If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Science, Gossip, Scientist

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Encouraging, Beautiful

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• To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Opposites, Ignorant

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.8, Oberon Books

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• There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

  James Lovelock

  Littles, Individual

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• Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

  Charles Lamb

  Life, Pain

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.234

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• Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

  Sherwood Eddy

  Faith, Believe, Trying

  Sherwood Eddy (1934). “A Pilgrimage of Ideas: Or, The Re-education of Sherwood Eddy”

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• For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

  William De Morgan

  Existence

  William Frend De Morgan (1906). “Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography”, H. Frowde

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• I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

  William J. Clinton

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  "Statement on Congressional Action on the Foreign Operations". William J. "Bill" Clinton's remarks at a Reception for Representative Martin T. Meehan in Lowell, Massachusetts, www.govrecords.org. October 20, 2000.

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• The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Anger, Math, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.67, Routledge

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• We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.

  John M. McHugh

  Stress, Problem, Resources

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• FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Fear, Real, Acronyms

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• Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Poetry, Ashes

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that'" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

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• Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

  James Randi

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”

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• Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

  Chauncey Wright

  Care, Convinced

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.141, A&C Black

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• Growth is the only evidence of life.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Change, Positive

  John Henry Newman (2016). “Apologia pro Vita Sua”, p.67, John Henry Newman

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• Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

  Norman Angell

  People, Aids, Humans

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• Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

  Aleister Crowley

  Intolerance, Fetish, Impotence

  Aleister Crowley, (2013). “The Writings of the Great Beast - Some Short Stories by Aleister Crowley (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

  Zahi Hawass

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

  Zahi Hawass (2015). “Magic of the Pyramids: My adventures in Archeology”, p.28, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

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• If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

  Francis Crick

  Foundation, Doe, Logical

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• False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Theory Of Evolution, Long

  Descent of Man Ch. 21, Appleton, New York (1871)

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• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Confidence, Teacher

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• Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strong, Animal, Humanity

  Journal, 11 Nov. 1850

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• The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Lying, Race

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

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• Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
    in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

  Paul Kurtz

  Fool, Belief, Scientist

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• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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