Quotes About Evidence

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

The almost total disappearance of coinage from daily use in the post-Roman West is further powerful evidence of a remarkable change in levels of economic sophistication.

All tanning should be considered visible evidence of toxic injury.

Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit? A: Peanut shells on the floor.

At the moment I have very little evidence and lots of theories. I'm itching to reverse the proportions.

when we follow our passions, we also risk escalating our emotional commitment to a new course of action before we have evidence that it will be doable.

Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. Consistency is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands.

the motives of the writer form as important an ingredient in the analysis or his history, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted.

But evidence indicates that intimate forms of organization were undergoing long and ever more intricate tests to see which ones would be among the chosen few to flourish next.

Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.

By whatever means life first arose on Earth, evidence shows that it came early and flourished in abundance in complex ecosystems of unicellular life-forms. When it arrived, it began to play a critical role in preparing Earth for more life, for all Earth's future inhabitants. The next chapter explains some of the ways it served later life's needs.

I know that the sun exists because I can see it; I believe that the earth goes around it because logical calculation concludes that, and it is not contradicted by what I can see. I know that unicorns exist because such a creature is possible in nature and reliable people have seen one, even though I have not myself

Young men of my type are prone to be impatient of details, and give their loyalties without regard to evidence.

Dar Bottando È™tia, datorit? unei înÈ›elepciuni ascuÈ›ite în ani întregi de activitate, c? nu exista nici un document care s? ateste c? responsabilitatea nu-i mai aparÈ›inea, iar asta era îngrijor?tor.

His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.

When 99% of the world's scientists agree that burning fossil fuels is adversely affecting the planet, and 10,883 out of 10,885 peer-reviewed papers confirm it, and yet a United States Senator steps on to the floor and attempts to rebut the facts by holding up a snowball, we have officially entered The Shithead Zone. But

Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence

On the other hand, these events show real science in action, warts and all. If no one is allowed to get things wrong, no progress will ever be made. It also illustrates scientists' willingness to change their minds when new evidence comes along or old evidence is shown to be misleading.

You know anything about investigative work? Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.

You can convince yourself of just about anything when you want to believe a conspiracy theory.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.