Quotes About Evidence

Unless you go to trial, you don't know what the truth is.

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those 12 people to believe their story.

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.

We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.

It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who are right with God and right with the world. I don't see that evidence very often.

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. If we took doctors seriously as human animals, we might hurt them - and they might hurt us - a lot less.

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

You are the proof of everything

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth.

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.