When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

We have to judge all evidence with the same amount of scrutiny. We want truth, not confirmation of whatever our preference is.

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.

In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

Today I found yet more evidence that I’m a lunatic. The proof came in a package in the mail. The sender? Myself. The evidence? Tampered with.

Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.