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"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
— John Adams
— John Adams
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen. Hebrew 11:1"
— Jesus Christ
— Jesus Christ
"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
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"Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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— Jerry Seinfeld
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— Jerry Seinfeld
"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different"
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
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"Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder."
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
"Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
— Bertrand Russell
— Bertrand Russell
"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 widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible"
— Bertrand Russell
— Bertrand Russell
"So why don't they face us... examine our evidence, debate, talk... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us?"
— Randolph D. Calverhall (Serpent's Walk)
— Randolph D. Calverhall (Serpent's Walk)
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