Quotes About Evidence

I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.

One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I'm very curious to meet a guy who makes you completely forsake the scientific method in favor of unfounded supposition and speculation." "It's called intuition!

We now have scientific evidence for what so many world cultures have known all along: that only a handful of plants on Earth are welcomed as naturally by the human mind as is hemp.

ever the skeptic, I demanded hardcore proof. It appeared I didn't trust my own feelings as much as I did science.

The absence of proof does not constitute the proof of absence.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

However, the benefits of spaced practice are apparent after 60 days. Since many training organizations don't evaluate learning over time, the benefits of spaced practice are rarely documented. Based on a lot of accumulated evidence, though, spaced practice will give you a better long-term return.

It was hard, to be stripped of the cold comforts of her simple atheistic faith in middle-age. The more so as the evidence seemed to lead to the conclusion that all the religions were true, including the ones that flatly contradicted each other.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

One morning, though, I came in and found signs that my room had been entered. I knew it had been detectives. I'd heard too many times how if they couldn't find any evidence, they would plant some, where you would never find it, then they'd come back in and find it.

Once is interesting. Twice is happenstance. Three times, it's a game. Patterns are things that happen that you really couldn't prove in court, but damn it, you know they happen!

I remember that one Holy Week, the magazine I got every Thursday, Anteojito , came with a free poster depicting the Stations of the Cross. I burned the poster and flushed the ashes down the toilet to dispose of the evidence. The idea that I was supposed to pin this graphic depiction of torture and death on my wall seemed to me as obscene as if someone had suggested decorating my room with pictures of the inner workings of Auschwitz.

In short, I could accept that Jesus saw his own death the way that Tom suggests only if there were very strong historical evidence for it. I find it more historically persuasive, and religiously compelling, to see the purposeful understanding of Jesus' death as post-Easter interpretations, and as history metaphorized, not history remembered.

No one can be a sound judge if he does not give due weight to convincing suspicions.

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

The written word is so much like evidence — like something that can be used against you later.

He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.