#evidence

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ↗

— Rosario Castellanos

#evidence #freedom #laugh #laughter #rosario

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

#bertrand #evidence #foolish #majority #opinion

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheist #evidence #god #noremorse #science

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#evidence #medicine #quip #wordplay #medicine

In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#evidence #historical #r-alan-woods #reliability #reliable

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. ↗

— James Bovard

#another #any #avoid #bush #bush administration

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around. ↗

— Pat Brown

#been #circumstances #depending #evidence #hanging

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#colonies #confederacy #continued #country #dependent

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. ↗

— George W. Bush

#america #cannot #clear #cloud #come

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing. ↗

— Vince Cable

#beginning #confidence #costs #debt #down