Quotes About Evidence

That's how science works. We don't "prove" results like we can in mathematics or logic; we simply add to their plausibility by accumulating more and more evidence.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

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.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

They know, too, that while in history-building a fact is better than a presumption, it doesn't take a presumption long to bloom into a fact when THEY have the handling of it.

I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we have rendered the verdict. To my mind, this is irregular. It is un-English; it is un-American; it is French.

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

Perhaps it was her first realization that criminality spoke for itself. Irrefutable.

I don't believe this, Sister Maria muttered. It can't be, because sure enough, when Liesel stepped forward and presented her hands, Ludwig Schmeikl was all over them, rusting by the moment.

el crimen hablaba por sí solo.

The proof was all in the hands.

One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.

One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.