Quotes About Evidence

We have evidence that autistic people's mirror mechanism is impaired.

It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

The law is agnostic about truth.