#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

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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

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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

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Intolerance is evidence of impotence. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. ↗

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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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

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