Evidence Quotes

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.

It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.

The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.