Evidence Quotes

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

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

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.