Quotes About Evidence

Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

The congressman sends out a tremendous subpoena, they want to see the e-mails, and they delete the e-mails. I can't think of anything, in terms of we're talking about, much more serious than that.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

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

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

The belief system, with all its ancestor worship, is anathema to progress, or so I have concluded given the evidence.

Bobby should be coherent by this afternoon. He'd enjoy a visit." "The sheriff doesn't talk to us," Dayan said. "Oh, he will, I think. Just tell him that if he doesn't, Linda Real has some photos of him that she'll let you have.

When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true.

Simulation is no substitute for math—it could never provide a proof—but if Peskin's conjecture was false, this approach would save me a lot of time by revealing a counterexample. This sort of evidence is extremely valuable in math. When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true. That gives you the confidence you need to keep searching for a rigorous proof. Programming

Simulation is no substitute for math—it could never provide a proof—but if Peskin's conjecture was false, this approach would save me a lot of time by revealing a counterexample. This sort of evidence is extremely valuable in math. When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true. That gives you the confidence you need to keep searching for a rigorous

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Certitude is not evidence of truth. Nor does repetition make it true. If anything, repetition should make you suspicious. Truth always stands up to scrutiny on its merits.

At minimum, there may be an implication that one of the great challenges for intelligent cultural beings may be to learn to cope with, and perhaps finally accept, a profound and deep sense of uncertainty regarding any larger cosmic sense of meaning and purpose—that such an uncertainty may have to be treated as a kind of empirical question to be possibly addressed over very long time periods as evidence is accumulated, but perhaps without ever obtaining a satisfactory answer.

Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

joy is evidence of God.

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.

În definitiv, s? nu uit?m ce spunea Sherlock Holmes:"Când ai eliminat imposibilul, orice r?mâne, oricât de imposibil ar p?rea, trebuie s? fie adev?rul". De?i, judecând dup? ferocitatea cu care un alt eminent filozof modern a fost atacat de criticii s?i, n-ai b?nui asta.