620 Quotes About Evidence

Based on the evidence from both observations and theoretical calculations, the scientific community eventually, and maybe reluctantly, has accepted the idea that the universe appear to have begun about fourteen billion years ago--because there is no other explanation that fits the evidence.

No "evidence" beats a good anecdote!

Despite all the evidence and proof, if that delays the justice with trickery means judiciary rapes, and violates own values and cogency.

An idea's worth is commensurate to the idea's evidence.

The evidence applies to that, where it requires. It is impossible to throw the saffron in the smelly garbage and expecting to smell perfume; the saffron only displays its colour and flavour in the food. It is not difficult if your thinking is not difficult.

The most important evidence for the age of the maps [...] is to be found in those showing the Antarctic, especially in the maps of Mercator, Piri Re'is, and Oronteus Finaeus. All of these maps appear to show the continent at a time when there was a temperate climate there. Some geological evidence, in the form of three sedimentary cores from the bottom of the Ross Sea, has been presented to suggest that such a warm period may indeed have existed there down to about 6,000 years ago.

Children are rarely taught critical thinking anymore, and society has become so antirational that basic reason and evidence are the new counterculture: thought is the new punk.

When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.