Quotes About Evidence

People who receive disconfirming or otherwise unwelcome information often do not simply resist it; they may come to support their original (wrong) opinion even more strongly—a backfire effect. Once we are invested in a belief and have justified its wisdom, changing our minds is literally hard work. It's much easier to slot that new evidence into an existing framework and do the mental justification to keep it there than it is to change the framework.

and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

Our oneness...leaves DNA evidence that Jesus has been here.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

You can look it up.

I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Seeing may be believing, but, in order to understand what you are seeing, logic is necessary.

Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time. Popular music can mark the present as history, helping us understand where we have been and where we are going.

God does not take sides in American politics, and in America disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.

Evidence supporting James Lovelock's 'Gaia hypothesis' – that the earth functions as a coherent and self-regulating system – appears, at the ecosystem level, to be accumulating.

our loyalties are to the aesthetics, not the evidence. We are seduced by the way things look, and overlook the way they function. But beauty is seldom truth, and truth is seldom beauty.

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

When a politician, on a subject implicating science says, 'the debate is over', you may be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he is losing it.

A supplementary 180-page U.S. government report issued that spring (June 2, 1998) provided more evidence that neutral countries, including the Vatican, had profited by hiding Nazi gold in their central banks.50

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.