Quotes About Evidence

Evidence suggests that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories is driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (needing to understand one's environment), existential (needing to feel safe and in control of one's environment), and social (needing to maintain a positive image of oneself and one's in-group) (Douglas et al., 2017).

once one invokes the supernatural, anything can be explained, and no explanation can be verified.

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul."

Christianity stands or falls on this tenet of the faith. If Christ is risen, he is all he said he was—the Messiah, the Son of God, the eternal king. If he isn't risen, he's dead—and irrelevant. Either way, we don't need more signs. We need to choose to believe what the evidence clearly shows.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Uneasily, I looked on the desk for a note or other evidence of her last time in the shop. But there was nothing, and the store telephone had no blinking lights promising messages, because the power was off.

Even teaching them to write an essay turned out to be dangerous, since the idea of coming up with your own thesis and making an argument based on evidence doesn't exist in North Korea.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

I consider myself to be a relatively sceptical person. I like to see evidence for myself, and try to avoid speculating beyond available evidence. But I also have to accept some things on trust.

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

Revealing of origin, evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.

Isobel had entrusted the note to Gwen just before Baltimore. And the small scrap of paper still remained her only tangible evidence that Varen had loved her.Expect...he didn't anymore.

I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It's a genuine vocabulary.

Does this prove what we believe? If you believe it, you don't need proof.

A good historian must combine the talents of the storyteller and the scientist. He must know what is likely to have happened as well as what some witnesses or writers said actually did happen.