(1196 quotes found)
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
Bertrand Russell
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”
Ayn Rand
“I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection”
John Locke
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization”
Abraham Maslow
“There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon.”
George W. Bush
“A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.”
David Letterman
“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“To ignore the evidence, and hope that it cannot be true, is more an evidence of mental illness”
William Blase