Quotes About Evidence

É um grande erro teorizar antes de ter todos os indícios. Prejudica o raciocínio.

Es una equivocación garrafal elaborar teorías antes de disponer de todos los elementos de juicio, porque así es como éste se tuerse en un determinado sentido.

When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation. (Sherlock)

Es un error emitir teorías antes de tener datos

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails.

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

Data! data! data! he cried impatiently. I can't make bricks without clay.

The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting

Ya le he explicado otras veces que en esta clase de casos lo extraordinario constituye antes que un estorbo, una fuente de indicios. La clave reside en razonar a la inversa, cosa, sea dicho de paso, tan útil como sencilla, y poquísimo practicada

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. What do you deduce from it?

The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Este o greÈ™eal? capital? s? emiÈ›i teorii înainte de a avea informaÈ›ii. F?r? s?-È›i dai seama, începi s? distorsionezi faptele ca s? se potriveasc? cu teoriile, în loc ca teoriile s? se potriveasc? cu faptele.

The conditions for original thinking are when two or more streams of research begin to offer evidence that they may converge and so in some manner be combined. It is the combination which can generate new directions of research, and through these it may be found that basic units and activities may have properties not before suspected which open up a lot of new questions for experimental study.

Helen Spurway concluded from the evidence of homology that the organism has only 'a restricted mutation spectrum' which 'determines its possibilities of evolution'.

But the revival of a dynamic psychology which reinstated the academic respectability of such terms as curiosity, exploratory drive, purpose, only came about when experimental evidence showed that even in the rat the urge to explore may prevail over hunger and fear.

To this day, in spite of great efforts, Lamarckism has failed to produce conclusive evidence to prove that acquired characters are transmitted to the offspring; and it seems fairly certain that, while experience does affect heredity, it does not do so in this simple and direct way.

Lack of the power to discriminate is no less evident in the sciences, namely in the tenacious life of false and refuted theories. Once come into general credit, they continue to defy truth for centuries. - On Various Subjects

Mere subtlety may qualify you as a sceptic but not as a philosopher. On the other hand, scepticism is in philosophy what the Opposition is in Parliament; it is just as beneficial, and indeed necessary. It rests everywhere on the fact that philosophy is not capable of producing the kind of evidence mathematics produces.

This experiment of making mortality a medical experience is just decades old. It is young. And the evidence is it is failing.

You would need to see consistently bad results across a number of studies to be convinced. And that has yet to be shown.

the studies show no connection.

More than 40 percent of oncologists admit to offering treatments that they believe are unlikely to work.

So what was the actual basis for charging Noe?