Quotes About Evidence

Bayes teaches us (1) never to assign perfect certainty to any such belief; (2) always to be prepared to update our credences when new evidence comes along; and (3) how exactly such evidence alters the credences we assign. It's a road map for coming closer and closer to the truth.

Comparé esta pieza con la anterior y acepté una evidencia emocionante: mi procedimiento mostraba ser de una eficacia aterradora. No solamente conservaba la personalidad de mi escritura, sino que además, al sublimarla de manera agresiva, permitía presagiar combinaciones infinitas.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change.

While the elective use of angioplasty and stents has skyrocketed over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been no change in the rate of heart attacks. Lange

Increasingly, every interaction with Adam was a matter of compounding evidence, either for or against a partnership.

For compulsions, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, are a response to anxiety. Suffused and overwhelmed by anxiety, we grab hold of any behavior that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control.

The killer could have sent it, so it looked like she was alive.

French researchers led by Ivan Matic, of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, studied hundreds of bacteria from all over the world and found that they also went into hyperdrive, mutationally speaking, when put under stress. Although the evidence is mounting, the case of hypermutation is definitely still pending.

Starting with rape, feminists dragged into the public arena plentiful evidence that sex was not an unproblematic joy for women. The result of uncovering the huge but hidden amount of abuse that women and girl children suffered in the form of sexual harassment, sexual abuse in childhood and marital rape, was that the sexual-liberation agenda had to be submitted to critical scrutiny.

Like all good lawyers, Mort pretends he's agreeing with her, while he's actually disagreeing. It's patronizing, but it works. "In general, Your Honor, that's true. On the other hand, when a video has been tampered with as this one has, or there is a substantial likelihood that it could be taken out of context, it could be unfairly damaging evidence.

The facts are your friends. Get as many of them as you can before you make any judgments about your client's case.

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.

It cannot be stressed enough that there is no certain independent date for any of the archaeological material from earliest Rome or the area round about, and that arguments still rage about the age of almost every major find.

Rebecca was not killed during a new moon," Mazur said as he checked his phone. "That was November 19.

If anything could prove the existence of the soul, he thought, it was the utter emptiness of a corpse.

In sum, although a few apologists still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (put simply, the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well-being—and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.

sentimentality is only emotion you haven't proven to the reader—emotion without vivid evidence.

Metaphorically speaking, I always make room for any evidence of scurvy in my characters, any mitigating ailments.

Science has the answer to every question that can be asked. However, science reserves the right to change that answer should additional data become available.

They have this idea that they can send astronauts up and the bone loss will level off in a few months, but the evidence that has come back doesn't support that view. If you look at a two-year mission to Mars, it's kind of a scary prospect.

It's one thing to get enough evidence to convince yourself, but it's a whole other matter to produce a demonstration that would be acceptable to a community of scientists