Quotes about evidence
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Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
Source: State of Fear

“I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.”
Book III, Ch. 11
Essais (1595), Book III
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Sometimes attributed to Contact (1985), but the quote does not appear in that book.
It appears attributed to Sagan in Judson Poling's 2003 book "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?", but without source.
Misattributed
Source: Via Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=Ondv5WzhYYYC&pg=PA21&dq=Sagan
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
Source: Something Blue

1770s, Boston Massacre trial (1770)
Variant: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Source: The Portable John Adams

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
Variant: A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
“Be a positive evidence collector”
Think Happy: Instant Peptalks to Boost Positivity


“Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.”
The Enemies of Reason, "The Irrational Health Service"
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Sam Harris, "Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? – William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-the-foundation-of-morality-natural-or-supernatural-the-craig-harris, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States – April 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7jHJRSzhM&t=1m10s
2010s

“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”

The reference to Cassius is that of the character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Listen to an mp3 sound file http://www.otr.com/murrow_mccarthy.shtml of parts of this statement.
See It Now (1954)
Context: No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.

“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”
Source: Atonement

“I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Letters
Source: Letters of David Hume 2 vols

When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks
Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)

“The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.”

“The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.”
7 min 25 sec
Back reference to UFO abduction claims
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Encyclopedia Galactica [Episode 12]
Context: For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
Source: These Strange Ashes
Source: Speedboat

“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.”
Source: Fever

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. https://books.google.de/books?id=YRmn-_vXZ58C&pg=PA102&dq=persuaded

Leftist Critiques of Identity Politics (2018)

Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)

Televised address on August 17, 1998 CNN transcript http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/17/speech/transcript.html
1990s
Reflection of Nicol Peters, journalist, in Ch. III
Lazarus (1990)

Corrine Dunn, "A polished Don Giovanni graces the Phil Stage", Naples Daily News (November, 2003) http://www.jennykellyproductions.com/prod_mozart_review.htm

Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa
2010s, <u>Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa</u> (2011)
Part 1, Chapter 7.7; about the death of Travis's landlord, Ted Hockney
Watchers (1987)
Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999)
English History 1914 – 1945 ([1965] 1975), "Revised Bibliography", p. 729