Quotes About Evidence

the evidence suggests that hunter-gatherers in their evolutionary natural environment and evolutionary natural way of life, shaped in humankind's evolutionary history over millions of years, widely engaged in fighting among themselves. In this sense, rather than being a late cultural 'invention', fighting would seem to be, if not 'natural', then certainly not 'unnatural' to humans.

Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them; for the witches themselves are imaginative; and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft.

God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.

The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.

There is clear empirical evidence that the response of EME financial markets to different shocks, including changes in U.S. interest rates, depends importantly on the state of economic fundamentals in the EMEs themselves.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

If you really look hard at the evidence, the most rational conclusion is to believe that the demonic is real.

The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the evidence justifying it was clear and sound. In the absence of any such finding, it has reached the conclusion that the proposal does not stand on its merits.

Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity. I have friends who very much do believe in that. But I don't.

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'

There's a strong body of evidence that shows that the more diligent we are in ensuring that guns are in the appropriate hands, the safer our communities will be.

they might refuse the evidence of their own eyes and continue blindly on over the ridge, driven by optimism and hope that finally they would find somewhere to call home.