Quotes About Evidence

We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that sexual orientation includes an innate component doesn't seem to point to the existence of simple 'gay genes' and 'straight genes.'

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

Who wouldn't admire the gall of a fellow brings a machine gun and a peck of hired killers to his own goddamn trial? Who wouldn't admire a fellow never leaves a trail of evidence? That's got this far in the world and galled so many folks and killed twice that number and cheated the rest, all without being blowed to itty bitty pieces or hanged by his goddamn neck or succumbing to one of countless infirmities he seems to collect like a goddamn hobby, hell yeah I admire the son-of-a-bitch.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

A belief that doesn't require evidence is still only a belief.

Everybody who sets out to prove that God exists succeeds and everybody who sets out to prove that God does not exist also succeeds.

The Jamaican violence had given humanitarians powerful evidence that the institution was costing Britain far more than it was giving back, and the humanitarians could now make extended pragmatic arguments as well as moral ones.

Joy is an outward sign of inward faith in the promises of God. It is a way of acting, and it is evidence of spiritual maturity. Joy is not a distant destination at which you arrive; rather, it's a path you choose to travel each day.

It had been done, the fridge had surfed, and what is more I had photographic evidence, provided I didn't screw up with the film again.

Nej, bevis hade han inga. Men han hade sin övertygelse. Mot en övertygelse står sig de flesta bevis slätt.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Harry was nervous about the séance, but he agreed to participate. Perhaps there was some part of him that actually hoped he could communicate with Cecilia. He still missed his mother terribly. Sir Arthur was thrilled with the results of the séance. His wife filled fifteen pages with messages for Harry, expressing Cecilia's love for him and how much she missed him. Sir Arthur thought Harry had to be as convinced as he was. Surely he couldn't deny this kind of evidence.

Even in the face of contrary evidence, the psychopath can lie so well that listeners doubt themselves first, rather than question the psychopath.

the tendency to believe something despite there being either evidence to the contrary, or no evidence at all.

There has never been a Supreme Court ruling on the admissibility of polygraph evidence in federal court.

A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in the light of a story. A great event has happened; the pilgrim hears the reports and goes in search of the evidence, aspiring to be an eyewitness. The pilgrim seeks not only to confirm the experience of others firsthand but to be changed by the experience.

If I had a choice of living in a society where I was materially much better off than I am now, but was among the poorest, or in one where I was the richest, but much worse off than I am now, I'd take the first option. If I had children, it would arguably be immoral not to. It's absolute poverty you want to avoid, not relative poverty. If, as the evidence so far implies, you have to have one or the other in your society, take relative poverty.

It's a prime example of a zombie idea—an idea that should have been killed by evidence, but refuses to die.

cita de Daniel Patrick Moynihan, «todo el mundo tiene derecho a tener su propia opinión, pero no sus propios hechos»

Democrats have a network of think tanks and sympathetic independent experts who look hard at evidence, try to devise solutions to real problems, and sometime affect actual legislative proposals. Republicans have nothing comparable; their tame "experts" are basically in the business of saying whatever their political masters want to hear.

Where Did The Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free-Energy Technology on 9/11, by Judy Wood, B.S., M.S., Ph.D.