Quotes About Evidence

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

Galbraith had her own rule when it came to rape cases: listen and verify. "A lot of times people say, 'Believe your victim, believe your victim,' " Galbraith says. "But I don't think that that's the right standpoint. I think it's listen to your victim. And then corroborate or refute based on how things go.

My mother taught me how to find grace in wreckage. She taught me not how to reassemble, but how to rearrange. The stained-glass pictures she made were certain evidence that things can be broken and put back together, and that the mended thing will be more beautiful than the original.

But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers...

Let us begin by turning the skeptic's question on its head. If you could believe in God, why wouldn't you? There is good evidence that those who believe in a loving God have happier lives. Loneliness is bad for people in many different ways—it diminishes immune function, increases blood pressure, and depresses cognitive function—and we know that people who believe in God are less lonely.

There is substantial evidence that tic disorders have a genetic component. They may be caused by an oversensitivity to the neurotransmitter dopamine, which controls movement, and they may originate in the basal ganglia, the part of the brain that controls behaviors.

You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that's built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that.

There's absolutely no evidence to indicate that. There never is. Homicidal satanic cults are the detective's version of yetis; no one has ever seen one and there is no proof that they exist, but one big blurry footprint and the media turn into a gibbering, foaming pack, so we have to act as though we take the idea at least semi-seriously.

If it was true. This case was jammed with lies, couldn't grab hold of it without getting a handful.

maybe everyone will start believing me about the mysterious

Homicidal satanic cults are the detective's version of yetis: no one has ever seen one and there is no proof that they exist, but one big blurry fingerprint and the media turn into a gibbering, foaming pack, so we have to act as though we take the idea at least semi-seriously.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," he told me reproachfully.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge it with science, it didn't happen.

His denomination, he says, is Empiricism. If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge wit with science, it didn't happen.

The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.

After I've translated all that I know into this language, the patterns I seek should become evident.

I watch these specialists, each with a pet theory, each contorting the evidence to fit. I'm even less convinced by them now than I was back then; they still have nothing to teach me. None of their categorizations are fruitful in analyzing my performance, since—there's no point in denying it—I'm equally good at everything.