Quotes About Evidence

As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive everyone, apart from Musa (as) and those who believed in him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swallowed up what they had forged," as the verse puts it: We revealed to Musa: "Throw down your staff." And it immediately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false. (Surat al-A'raf, 117-8)

Tai chi is often described as "meditation in motion," but it might well be called "medication in motion." There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice... has value in treating or preventing many health problems.

But we can only be evolved in the same context in which we were lost—that is, in relationship. We are born into relationship. Our personalities are formed by relationship. And, we are healed in relationship. Relationship holds both the evidence of our injuries and the means of our salvation. It's the way we become who we are.

There is simply no proof that warfare in small-scale societies was a rarer or less serious undertaking than among civilized societies. In general, warfare in prestate societies was both frequent and important. If anything, peace was a scarcer commodity for members of bands, tribes, and chiefdoms than for the average citizen of a civilized state.

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

But neither life, nor human history, turn out to support such a notion.

Maybe we should come to our opinions by using wisdom, logic, evidence, so much of those things that we know we are right and can't be swayed. Then we should hope for an argument against us that makes us think, "I could be wrong", and be willing to listen

The point of an interrogation is not to get a confession. A successful interrogation, Duncan once told Eve, is when you walk out of the room with any information, no matter how small, that advances the investigation.

Nobody would ever take the time to analyze forensic evidence in the theft of frozen Jimmy Dean sausages from an office break room.

Because I don't remember what actually happened but that's what we were into back then. That's why I didn't want to report the rape. I knew the police would take blood and urine samples from us and our partying would come out," she said. "We'd be trashed in court as a couple of drunken druggie sluts. Nobody would believe that we were raped. Even if they did, by some miracle, and the men were convicted, I'd still lose.

The evidence, unfortunately, is that the West is not even remotely interested in mounting a defense of its values in the face of Muslim fanaticism. Worse, there are signs that the West is even prepared to sacrifice some of its core values in order to appease those who have always despised these values.

Finiteness is not the only example in string theory of a conjecture that is widely believed but so far unproved.

Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment

To quote Richard Dawkins, in The Blind Watchmaker, "The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is, in principle, capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. Even if the evidence did not favor it, it would still be the best theory available." The

The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!

But your love goes beyond that. You can know all these things about your wife and not be in love with her and put your trust in her, but you do. So the decision goes beyond the evidence, yet it is there also on the basis of the evidence. So it is with falling in love with Jesus. To have a relationship with Jesus Christ goes beyond just knowing the historical facts about him, yet it's rooted in the historical facts about him.

Science and faith are not at war. When scientific evidence and biblical teaching are correctly interpreted, they can and do support each other. I'd say to anyone who doubts that: investigate the evidence yourself.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

But lyrics are not proof; photographs are.

I submit these assorted pieces of evidence I'm unwilling to categorize!

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

experience is the evidence

We live untruth amid evidence of untruth.