Top 610 Evidence Quotes

When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It’s always easy to throw the race card in there and that’s what they’re doing in Washington today, that they’re concerned about racial profiling.
Joe Arpaio
Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.
Grace Meng
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
The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
James Hansen
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
Louis Leakey
If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
Paul Bloom
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
John J. Sirica
Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of evidence.
Crispin Blunt
The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.
Judy Sheindlin
Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some… racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company’s policies, a gender bigot.
Meryl Streep
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change – led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
Lynn Margulis
No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.
Michio Kaku
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman
Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn’t really help me understand a person.
James McBride
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
Ben Goldacre
To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I’m adding up the evidence on either side, and I’m seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.
Julia Sweeney
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failu

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
Nancy Gibbs
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Barry Commoner
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.
Derek Bok
Whenever counterterrorism professionals see punditry and media make grand pronunciations on terrorism that defy all demonstrable evidence, an unrepeatable oath is usually muttered.
Malcolm Nance
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
Chauncey Wright
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press – no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.
Michael Lewis
When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn’t make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn’t mean you understand psychology.
Adam Grant
From all the available evidence, the body has an excellent immune response to Zika. Therefore, once you get it once, you will never get it again.
Tom Frieden
There’s a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there’s no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
Andrew Weil
No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.
Gene Kranz
Opting for conspiracy over facts and partisanship over constitutional principles, Democrats have chosen to ignore the damning evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama-era FBI.
Kayleigh McEnany
It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.
Kathleen Kenyon
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld
I’m not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
Eben Alexander
To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later.
Joseph Rotblat
Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation of feelings by charismatic leaders.
Margaret MacMillan
Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.
Paul Davies
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Levi Strauss
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
Clifford D. Simak
Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.
Neymar
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Earl Warren
To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.
Robert Greene
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
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
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they’ve lost due to Napster.
Dave Rowntree
What I can’t quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can’t understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence – i.e adapt to feedback.
Dominic Cummings
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley
Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.
Theodore Dalrymple
Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
Herman Cain
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
Christopher Hitchens
I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.
John Elkann
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.
Angela Rayner
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas – an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Morris Raphael Cohen
There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.
Bradley A. Smith
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it’s not supported by evidence.
Ha-Joon Chang
We’re now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can’t erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser about what they type.
Judith Martin
Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.
Simon Greenleaf