Quotes About Evidence

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

The fact that the scientific investigator works 50 percent of his time by nonrational means is, it seems, quite insufficiently recognized.

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

There is a remarkably close parallel between the problems of the physicist and those of the cryptographer. The system on which a message is enciphered corresponds to the laws of the universe, the intercepted messages to the evidence available, the keys for a day or a message to important constants which have to be determined. The correspondence is very close, but the subject matter of cryptography is very easily dealt with by discrete machinery, physics not so easily." —Alan Turing

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

You know what a fact is? That's something that has nothing to do with politics.

So the bioweapon narrative was easy to quash, at least if you were among the small minority of Miasma users who actually cared about logic and evidence.

We see clear evidence that this point, and this point, must be very close to each other—perhaps, directly adjacent—because they seem to have a lot to do with each other; when one lights up, the other tends to light up at the same time, or a little before or after. So we can begin to make sense of this overall pattern of traffic as if it were a three-dimensional

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Looking more closely at Earth's atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

To make this journey, we'll need imagination but imagination alone is not enough because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine. This adventure is made possible by generations of searchers strictly adhering to a simple set of rules. Test ideas by experiment and observation. Build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail, follow the evidence where ever it leads and question everything. Accept these terms and the cosmos is yours...

When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition.