Evidence Quotes

“Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.”

“But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.”

“Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?”

“But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.”

“The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.”

“Even things that are true can be proved.”

“Facts are stubborn things.”

“There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.”

“No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.”

“One picture is worth 1,000 denials.”

“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.”

“I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.”

“A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.”

“DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.”

“Facts may speak for themselves.”

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”

“To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.”

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

“It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.”

“We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.”