evidence quotes

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

The word ‚racism‘ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‚racist.‘

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Facts are stubborn things.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I have to be seen to be believed.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.