Quotes About Evidence

Salió de la cantina casi de buen humor, y de hecho divertido con la idea de que estaba apostando la cordura por la evidencia flaca de un escalofrío compartido. —¿Es usted un romántico? —pregunta la heroína de la película. —Sí —responde su héroe—. ¿Le molesta? —No —concluye, sabihonda, la mujer—. Todos tenemos algún defecto.

Either Plato and Xenophon are involved in a massive cover-up, or there were factors peculiar to Athenian State religion which make Socrates guilty as charged. We can only hope that the former alternative is not the case, since Plato's and Xenophon's accounts are practically our only evidence on Socrates' views.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Science, according to Kuhn, has not actually followed the classic myth of steady evolution of accumulating theories based on deeper and deeper probing of the evidence. Rather, science has sometimes made huge transitions as one paradigm, which may have stood for centuries, is found to be inadequate and crashes to the ground, to be replaced by another.

To those children of the officers who are eradicated, your parent was not the individual you thought they were. As you get older,you will see the evidence that your parent was a tyrant who loss their ethos and instead followed the path of moral corruptness

This inquiry began with a deceptively simple question. How does it happen that serious people continue to believe in progress, in the face of massive evidence that might have been expected to refute the idea of progress once and for all?

I still believe in love despite all the evidence to the contrary and I believe in soulmates although I believe mine may be agoraphobic.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

So then, the virgin birth is not proof of the deity of Jesus, but rather, evidence of the humanity of God.

The acquittal of O.J. Simpson shows what can happen when you try to frame a guilty person.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

all the evidence to prove that

The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen

Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.

DSM rules specify that disorders cannot be added or dropped without conclusive empirical evidence. This is why lobbying to drop DID from DSM-5 was unsuccessful: there was no empirical foundation for such a change.

you've never seen any evidence of drugs—any packets of drugs? Crack? Speed? Ecstasy? Anything? Anything at all?" Had she? "No," she said. Almost truthfully. "You've never smelt anything suspicious?" "I wouldn't know what they smell like, drugs

If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.

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

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

If Hilbert's view prevails over intuitionism, as appears to be the case, then I see in this a decisive defeat of the philosophical attitude of pure phenomenology, which thus proves to be insufficient for the understanding of creative science even in the area of cognition that is most primal and most readily open to evidence – mathematics.