Quotes About Evidence

Of course, in meeting Hume's challenge, we do have to concede that he was right in that no degree of evidence can confirm a universal generalization. However, it does not follow that we are slobbering dogs.

On the contrary, we seem to be strongly disposed to irrationality, as examples below will illustrate. Therefore, the idea that we can understand how beliefs should be formed by looking indiscriminately at how they are formed is a hopeless task. Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds (1994), by cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini sums up much of this evidence

Looking at the number of Google hits on travel and entertainment websites from people who lived in PS 116's district would be data, but not evidence; and their evidentiary value would not improve even if there were millions of hits.

Evidence may not buy happiness, but it sure does steady the nerves.

The integrity of any theory, Kuhn argued, lies in its falsifiability - that is, its openness to the possibility of repudiation in the light of more evidence, fresh insights or a more creative interpretation of data whose significance was not previously understood.

In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but by opinion.

When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy him personally that it is so. The same evidence which convinces one expert may leave another completely unsatisfied.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Hansen et al. have made the case that we are no longer waiting for evidence of global warming. It is clearly here now, affecting a wide variety of weather and climate events, and it will continue to grow as we burn more fossil fuels…. Even the apparently normal distribution of temperature can display non-normal behavior, and this can lead to extremes of even greater magnitude than might otherwise be expected.8

Any given study seems to prove a lot, but put together, they are so at odds with each other that the net effect is inconclusive.

Everyone has a camera on their phone and no one sees UFOs anymore.

What do you call a conspiracy theory that's backed up by evidence? Oh yes, a conspiracy

And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

Otra faceta destructiva de la psicología humana es que, cuando alguien se ha hecho una idea de algo, aceptará la evidencia que refuerce su opinión y rechazará la que la contradiga.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Todo el mundo no conoce los secretos de la Verdad Los Estados de la Verdad no son evidenciales.

Rumor, innuendo, and wild speculation are the enemies of any scientific investigation, especially one that is focused on such unusual phenomena.

Your faith should prove itself to you.

That is the difference between us—I believe in everything until proven, whereas you believe in nothing until proven." I

I thought about how you could kill a victim only once, but how a crime scene could die a thousand deaths.

You know, Balzac once described bureaucracy as a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." "What'd your buddy Balzac have to say about inadmissible evidence?" "Not a lot. I think he considered the subject beneath him.

the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not as abundantly as in the first century. Christians in the medieval and modern periods continued to embrace these activities of the Spirit. It is, in fact, cessationism that is not well documented in earlier history; it seems no coincidence that it arose only in a culture dominated by anti-supernaturalism.

Women scholars have conducted research over the past forty years hoping to find evidence of some societies in which women controlled political power. They have not found evidence for any such matriarchies.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.