Quotes About Evidence

Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.

What proof do we have? The words of men long dead, only now deemed divinatory?

He's real. Too many people talk about him for him to not be.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe. It was a conundrum, one Sazed had wrestled with. He wanted someone, something, to force him to have faith. He wanted to have to believe because of the proof shown to him. Yet, the believers whose words now filled his mind would have said he already had proof. Had he not, in his moment of despair, received an answer? As he had been about to give up, TenSoon had spoken. Sazed had begged for a sign, and received it.

Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Is wisdom derived from experience more or less valuable than data produced by controlled research? What research should we allow into our professional journals and what should we reject?

It puzzled her that orgasm wasn't widely considered a phenomenon that challenges everything we believe about human existence—doesn't it serve as proof of an alternate state of being? Isn't the fact that people can feel this way, so in thrall to this enigmatic force, so carried by it, even for an instant, evidence that the state in which we spend most of our time is merely one possibility?

Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace," Lundstr

Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander

slowly peel away all the extraneous layers. There are tracks and marks left at every crime scene, like shadows of the event itself. That's what you have to find.

Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

What saved me, as I now see, was that it turned to something else altogether. It didn't last as suspense - it was superseded by horrible proofs.

There are evidences of a very great art in Europe as long as twenty-five thousand years ago, and in Egypt as far back as sixty thousand years. Money had nothing to to do with the production of these treasures. Money will have nothing to do with the art of the future.

Squirrels are blamed for many crimes they are not responsible for, but in this case honesty compels me to say it was the squirrels done it. I saw them.

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought... hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.