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Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset; but conspiracism is a virus that feeds off insecurity and bitterness.
I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.
The Democrats' obsession with the Kochs as a political target is, indeed, additional evidence of a truly Nixonian approach to politics.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.
Somehow the government has convinced the American people that using tear gas is perfectly harmless, despite stark evidence to the contrary.
Despite overwhelming and irrefutable evidence to the contrary, President Obama continues to believe that he can negotiate with Republicans.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
There is no evidence at all that a voting booth was hacked or one person's vote in America was taken from Trump candidate to Clinton candidate.
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.
We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.
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.
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.
I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that.
All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.
The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
The Internet has become a breeding ground for the paranormal and being able to share evidence. I mean, there are ghost-hunting apps for your iPhone.
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'
Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.
If people dying as a consequence of the implementation of measures cannot count as evidence that the legislation has detrimental effects, what would?
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.
No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.