Quotes About Evidence

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

I believe that facts serve feminists far better than faith. That due process is better than mob rule.

Rather than trying to find evidence of a crime, the FBI's counterintelligence goal is to identify, monitor and neutralize foreign intelligence activity in the United States.

What words openly declare can be tested against empirical evidence, but what words insinuate can bypass that safeguard. Even an innocent-sounding phrase like "income distribution," endlessly repeated, can suggest a process in which income exists somehow and is then distributed, as one might distribute food at a dinner table or gifts at Christmas.

There is no evidence that suicide prevention prevents suicide. Psychiatrists and psychiatric hospitals are regularly sued and found liable for patient suicides. Psychiatrists kill themselves at three times the rate of the general public.

OlaÄŸanüstü iddialar olaÄŸanüstü kan?tlar? gerektirir," uyar?s?nda bulunmuÅŸ olan Marquis de Laplace'? (s?k s?k "Frans?z Newton" diye adland?r?lan matematikçi ve astronom Pierre-Simon Laplace [1794-1827])

it is also true that the classics have scarcely lost in absolute value as a voucher of scholastic respectability, since for this purpose it is only necessary that the scholar should be able to put in evidence some learning which is conventionally recognized as evidence of wasted time; and the classics lend themselves with great facility to this use.

A lobby group seeking to deny the statistical evidence will always be able to point to some aspect of the current science that is not settled, note that the matter is terribly complicated, and call for more research. And these claims will sound scientific, even rather wise. Yet they give a false and dangerous impression: that nobody really knows anything.

If the story you're reading is about health, there's one place you should be sure to look for a second opinion: the Cochrane Collaboration.

Testing a hypothesis using the numbers that helped form the hypothesis in the first place is not OK.15

These days, doctors care about rigorous evidence, because they know that bad advice can kill, and good intentions save nobody.

The counterintuitive result is that presenting people with a detailed and balanced account of both sides of the argument may actually push people away from the center rather than pull them in. If we already have strong opinions, then we'll seize upon welcome evidence, but we'll find opposing data or arguments irritating. This biased assimilation of new evidence means that the more we know, the more partisan we're able to be on a fraught issue.

Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In

Trump having the ability to trick a mob of rubes into storming the Capitol wasn't a reason to stop enabling him, it was more evidence that his mob must be obeyed.

In fact, there is clear evidence that cooking in 'vegetable' oils is likely to be very bad for our health.

I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.

After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.

The Durant Report.

Skepticism is a natural part of science

If you don't write it down, it never happened. Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

if you don't write it down, then it never happened

if you don't write it down—" "Then it never happened.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.