#evidence

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former. ↗

— Richard Pound

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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#belated #defense #delivered #eulogy #evidence

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

— William Landay

#evidence #mystery #business

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#belief #confidence #degree #evidence #high

Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?" Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#faith #skepticism #ufo #death

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#dismissed #evidence #without

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence. ↗

— Robert McFarlane

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