Evidence Quotes - Page 29

• Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Psych

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• You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Earth, Facts

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• We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe. And then we fight - sometimes to the death - to make others believe in that model, or to be able to keep believing in it ourselves. In other words, we try to erase contradictory evidence to that model.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Believe, Fighting, Trying

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• Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

  Mark Twain

  Knives, Perfect, Teeth

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving, Answers, Problem

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• The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Fundamentals, Sides

  "The speech Donald Trump should give tonight to win it all" by Monica Crowley, www.washingtontimes.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Bridges, Elements, Absence

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• Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

  Russell Sherman

  Song, Common Sense, Needs

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• Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Eye, Agendas

  Bart D. Ehrman (2012). “Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Humility, Support

  Hugh Ross (2010). “Why the Universe Is the Way It Is”, p.41, Baker Books

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• I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Silly, Biblical

  "The Gospel According to Bart". Interview with David V. Barrett, "Fortean Times", 2007.

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• In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Ordinary, Would Be, Matter

  Simon Greenleaf (1846). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.30

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• Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

  Karl Deutsch

  Lying, Independent, Streams

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• Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

  Dean Frazer

  Feelings, Intolerance, Powerless

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• I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

  Hermann Goring

  Would Be, Matter, Able

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• ...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Authority, Shows

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• Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Joy, Evidence Of God, Sheer

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• If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?

  Robert W. Funk

  Appreciate, Support, Historical

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• But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Silly, People

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• Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Daughter, Texting, Potassium

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2011

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• Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

  Ellen Goodman

  Believe, People, Looks

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• God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Mind, Given

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• The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Design, Tuning

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

  Christopher Buckley

  Needs, Internet

  Christopher Buckley (2012). “They Eat Puppies, Don't They?”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

  Carl Sagan

  Strong, Self Worth, Information

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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