#evidence

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. ↗

— Frances Wright

#all things #bring #contented #courage #covetous

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dismissed #evidence #without

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#any #attributed #believe #columns #day

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#cases #controls #direct #each #enzyme

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#elsewhere #evidence #excused #give #hand

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#blind #body #does #even #everything

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #evidence #fact #held #opinion

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy. ↗

— Jonathan Klein

#best way #does #evidence #interventions #keep

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#attitudes #corporation #distrust #ed #evidence