620 Quotes About Evidence

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted, if any one can do it; and I leave the ideas that are suggested in the conclusion of the work to rest on the mind of the reader; certain as I am that when opinions are free, either in matters of govemment or religion, truth will finally and powerfully prevail.

Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.

Many people say all sorts of things, they usually do others, and they prove what they say even less.

Believe evidence, not people.

Best to be humble unless people are unreasonable then best to be direct.

Best to be humble unless people are unreasonable, then best to be direct.

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a beleaguered visitor to Morocco hiring a tour guide: pay off one so that the seventy-five others will stop trying to trade you their camels for your wife. Which one you pay off is largely irrelevant.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.