Quotes About Evidence

It's a truism that love is blind; what's less obvious is just how much evidence it can ignore.

Las pruebas arqueológicas e históricas apuntan resueltamente hacia Hobbes y hacia la guerra como parte integral y duradera de la experiencia humana.

Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

The principle put forth by the great French criminalist Edmund Locard—that the criminal always leaves something of himself (no matter how minute) at the scene of his crime, and always carries something of the scene away with him (again, no matter how infinitesimal)—has not changed in seventy-five years; the tools of the criminalist have simply become more sophisticated.

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clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on God.

If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want.

If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want. I

You don't see the evidence of youth in me; it is something so far afield of the promises of youth that I've only begun to understand its agonies.

L'istinto potente del vampiro per cui anche il più impercettibile cambiamento nell'espressione del volto umano ha l'evidenza di un gesto. Lestat aveva un tempismo sovrannaturale.

I know history, I read it as others read their Bibles, and I will not be satisfied until I have unearthed all stories that are written and knowable, and cracked the codes of all cultures that have left me any tantalizing evidence that I might pry loose from earth or stone or papyrus or clay.

Nevertheless, the inquiry turned up evidence to prove that with the help of mobsters, Post officials were dumping newspapers into the East River, incorporating them into the paper's circulation statistics, and thereby boosting advertising rates.

The object of the new school is to teach reasonable doubt. Not the unreasonable doubt of the wild-eyed heckler, but the evidence-based doubt of the questioning scientist and the reason-based doubt of the skilled debater.

As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.