#evidence

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #anything #be true #belief #believe

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#employments #evidence #fitness #given #high

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#better #cultural #evidence #fact #historical

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#action #american #american people #day #earth

There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#directed #evidence #except #kind #oswald

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. ↗

— Alex Cox

#critics #down #evidence #genius #goes

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. ↗

— Francis Crick

#attempt #bad #both #code #consider

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code. ↗

— Francis Crick

#code #direct #earlier #evidence #genetic

Intolerance is evidence of impotence. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#impotence #intolerance

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#additional #already #everest #evidence #foot