Quotes About Evidence

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of god's existence.

people nearly always left trails. It's human nature

truth is only needed when sufficient reasons make it necessary

In short, science is well positioned to properly handle belief. Religion is not.

should interest you," says Thorpe. "The man who was killed in Vegas fought off his assailant at least long enough to give us a clue. Under his fingernails we took some scrapings, found tissue, and did a DNA profile. We were unable to match it to any known individual

A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.

The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.

Unless you have more information, however, it's hard to say what's causing what.

Mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

La prueba de todo conocimiento es el experimento —dijo—. El experimento es el único juez de la "verdad" científica». La

Correlation does not equal causality.

As scientists like to say: The plural of anecdote is not data.)

Anyway, this is just the latest example of why I never trust statistics I get from people in the field of medicine, ever.

Gut hunches are routinely passed off as dogma while conventional wisdom flourishes even when there is no data to back it up.

prohibir a los médicos llevar corbata, porque, como ha observado el Departamento de Salud del Reino Unido, «se lavan muy de vez en cuando», «no tienen ningún efecto beneficioso en la atención al paciente» y «se ha demostrado que están colonizadas por patógenos».

Look around the world and you'll find overwhelming evidence of the herd mentality at work.

There is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction.

It's easy to let your biases—political, intellectual, or otherwise—color your view of the world. A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.

even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.

contar historias que se basan en datos acumulados y no en anécdotas personales, anomalías llamativas, opiniones personales, estallidos emocionales o tendencias morales.

rely on accumulated data rather than on individual anecdotes

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion but not to their own facts.

The history of knowledge conventionally focuses on breakthrough ideas and conceptual leaps. But the blind spots on the map, the dark continents of error and prejudice, carry their own mystery as well. How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline—the sociology of error.

I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its sanctity, is contradicted by a mass of evidence, and is getting in the way of the only morally relevant goal surrounding rape, the effort to stamp it out.