Quotes with evidence

  • Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
  • Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
  • It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
  • Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
  • The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
  • Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
  • You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.
  • Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
  • Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
  • History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
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  • Sir John Lubbock Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche "Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • David Hume A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Arthur Erickson After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bill Dedman After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All necessary truth is its own evidence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Ben Goldacre Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Ben Nelson Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Michael Brian Schiffer Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
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  • Bill Maris As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Dorothy Sayers Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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  • Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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