Quotes About Evidence

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

If you board an aircraft built according to science—with principles that have survived numerous attempts to prove them wrong—you have a far better chance of reaching your destination than you do in an aircraft constructed by the rules of Vedic astrology.

The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success.

If that's how you want invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that is getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time goes on.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe it.

It's no secret that people will give their lives, or take the lives of others, in support of what they believe. Often the less actual evidence that exists in support of an ideology, the more likely a person is willing to die for the cause.

Often the less actual evidence that exists in support of an ideology, the more likely a person is willing to die for the cause.

Personal truths have the power to command your mind, body, and soul, but are not evidence-based. Personal truths are what you're sure is true, even if you can't—especially if you can't—prove it. Some of these ideas derive from what you want to be true. Others take shape from charismatic leaders or sacred doctrines, either ancient or contemporary. For some, especially in monotheistic traditions, God and Truth are synonymous. The Christian Bible says so:2

scientists are not in search of each other's opinions. We're in search of each other's data.

On the subject of climate change, the data clearly show that Earth is warming up, and that humans are contributing to the warming. That's the fairest assessment of the evidence.

Because the genetic makeup of a virus has to be able to… well, mesh with a cell to infect it. Human cells do not mesh with FMD virus." Beth said, "But there's some evidence that Mad Cow Disease has infected humans.

When podcasts are in charge there will be no wars, just ears. That will probably be our motto, but in Latin. In our podcastian future, we'll comprehend that each story has another angle, every case a contradictory piece of evidence.

For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have engaged with the potential destruction of this world on an emotional level and there is a fundamental difference. There is huge feeling of grief, of loss.

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There's an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

There's no way without real evidence I would ever send the National Guard to the border.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

The anemic liberal class continues to assert, despite ample evidence to the contrary, that human freedom and equality can be achieved through the charade of electoral politics and constitutional reform.

Evidence is plentiful, however, that the system of shell companies and offshore bank accounts that Russia's elite use to hide their financial dealings from prying eyes has shaped Russian financial and corporate life.