Quotes About Evidence

His propositions are nothing but expressions of personal opinion unless they are supported by reasons.

we want to know not merely what his propositions are, but also why he thinks we should be persuaded to accept them.

RULE 11, therefore, can be stated as follows: RESPECT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND MERE PERSONAL OPINION BY GIVING REASONS FOR ANY CRITICAL JUDGMENT YOU MAKE.

Knowledge, if you please, consists in those opinions that can be defended, opinions for which there is evidence of one kind or another. If we really know something, in this sense, we must believe that we can convince others of what we know. Opinion, in the sense in which we have been employing the word, is unsupported judgment.

He showed me that the PCR tests in use for COVID could pick up evidence of weeks-old cold or flu in the nasal passages and misidentify it as "COVID-19." He explained that many colds are "coronaviruses," so I realized that a news outlet saying that 70,000 people had died of "coronavirus," without further identification, could imply more than just deaths from COVID-19.

I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask—the fish?

Where there's fire, there's smoke.

It can be seen as a discussion of the nature of evidence—the way in which there is no single truth about anyone's life, but as many truths as there are observers.

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it.

Soon a messenger brought back the will, together with two photostats of the document.

do not be misled by expert bravado or by an expert's own sense of how he or she is doing. Evidence is a much better guide than an impressive self-presentation.

Although there are alternative perceptions, there are no alternative facts.

Had I been allowed to testify, I would have told them that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the bullet that killed President Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll area. I would have also informed the Warren Commission about the call I received from Lyndon Johnson while we were operating on Lee Harvey Oswald. President Johnson told me that a man in the operating room would get a deathbed confession from Oswald.

It was the BJP that betrayed me when one of its members made the Rs 150-crore bribery allegation against me without evidence.

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.

If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

I would put my million dollars up as well.

I think it's important for people to believe their elections are on the up and up and they aren't being tampered with by anyone, and in this particular instance there's a large body of evidence that at a minimum Russia tried to tamper with our election.

There is no evidence when we look to the past for any precedent for the rate of change in atmospheric composition that we're causing, and the rates of change in climate that we can expect, as we continue to burn fossil fuels and elevate these greenhouse gas concentrations.

What we have to work with is hints and allegations, really, evidence, sometimes only a trace, that points to something lying behind the text. It's useful to keep in mind that any aspiring writer is probably also a hungry, aggressive reader and will have absorbed a tremendous amount of literary history and literary culture.

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information