Quotes About Evidence

Marx's work has often been dismissed as 'crude dogma', usually by people who give no evidence of having read him.

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Collectively, police have a contraband hit rate of 29 percent (or 12 percent, looking only at arrest-worthy contraband).

Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That's why instead of debating "Does God exist?" I prefer to debate the question "What better explains reality: atheism or theism?

Indeed, photographic evidence placed him in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.

entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.

The credo of experimental science remains that an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Para sobrellevar la pérdida, y aliviar nuestro propio terror a la mortalidad, a menudo contemplamos la muerte como una transición a otra vida. No tenemos evidencia de esta notable innovación mental en ningún otro animal.

Behavior doesn't fossilize. This is why speculations about human prehistory are often based on what we know about other primates. Their behavior indicates the range of behavior our ancestors may have shown.

The credo of experimental science remains that an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If we fail to find a capacity in a given species, our first thought ought to be "Did we overlook something?" And the second should be "Did our test fit the species?

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Skeptic's mistake lies in thinking that we should tie our hands behind our backs just because we will not be able to reach rock-hard conclusions.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.

Il est à peine besoin de dire que beaucoup de choses que la science moderne prend pour des fantaisies sont — ou étaient — des réalités. Il est curieux de constater que certains procédés d'une science qui veut être « exacte » sont foncièrement illogiques : par exemple, prendre une improbabilité pour une impossibilité, ou conclure à l'inexistence d'une chose dont on ne possède pas de preuves positives.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Feelings aren't proof. Feelings are the opposite of proof.' 'Not when the thing you're trying to prove is someone's humanity.

Pre-Calamity people had been weird. Awesome too--evidence: castle---but still pretty weird.

Looks like we're going to need a new prime suspect, Wax," Wayne said. "This one downright refuses to not be dead already.

You are offered proof only once you believe, but if you believe, you can find proof in anything. It is a logical conundrum.