Quotes About Evidence

people seem eager to believe that aliens exist, despite the lack of hard evidence and the huge number of proven frauds and hoaxes.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

The only thing that any of the two-dozen-plus gumshoes could come up with was a photograph of the president smoking a cigarette after telling the country he had quit that habit.

There is simply no evidence tending to show that the South would have voluntarily abandoned slavery. The evidence is that the Southern states had openly abridged the Constitution of the United States, especially the Bill of Rights, in behalf of the institution.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Occam's razor is an important tool in science. It shouldn't be oversold; nature can be complex and bizarre. But as a rule of thumb, it is most sensible to adopt the simplest explanation for an observation until the evidence overwhelms it.

not a single scrap of actual historical or archeological evidence for this theorizing, it also reeks of modern imperialism by projecting stupidity onto the writers of some of the most intelligent and poetic literature in history. Such arrogance is easily dismissed when one studies the ancient cultural context of divine names as expressing character traits related to specific situations.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.

True science begins with observation.

Humankind is immortal, and what we are doing now is learning our lessons. We are all in school. It is so simple if you can believe in immortality. "If a part of humankind is eternal, and there is much evidence and history to think so, then why are we doing such bad things to ourselves?

The detailed, scientifically acceptable studies of Dr. Joseph B. Rhine at Duke University, of Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatry, of Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler at the College of the City of New York, and of many other serious researchers prove that this can be done.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

Staying unSpun really boils down to following a few principles... When confronted with a claim, keep an open mind, ask questions, cross-check, look for the best information, and then weigh the evidence.

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

At other times he just wanted to hold casual conversations that had no military importance at all. The soldiers saw these friendly visits, albeit brief, as evidence that he cared for them.

In the 17th century, the French statesman Cardinal Richelieu famously said, "Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him." Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin's secret police in the old Soviet Union, declared, "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." Both were saying the same thing: if you have enough data about someone, you can find sufficient evidence to find him guilty of something.

There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking place where something was before.

By stating what a text means, placing that truth where it originates in the text, and proving how the text establishes that truth, you fulfill the fundamental obligations of an expositor: State what you know and show how you know.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.