620 Quotes About Evidence

The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

...the real threat from cranks is not that their customers might die -- there is the odd case, although it seems crass to harp on about them - but that they systematically the public's understanding about the very nature of evidence.

They do not like evidence like that, anything too definite because our first instinct is to find flaws and debunk. They want to be discussed and portrayed, but never proven. They want to be credited as the true makers of the pyramids and lifters of Stonehenge when it had much more to do with the gods who were then extant.

The truth is for those that seek it!

It's possible that aliens arebuilding blancmange fortresses on a distant planet millions of lightyears away. It could be true even though we have no evidence it is happening. It's completely irrational to say it is not happening when you can't be at least reasonably sure.

Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist haschosen not to accept it. They have no proof or even evidence oftheir belief, but will stick by it. This takes blind faith.