Quotes About Evidence

I was the one who said things changed; you were the one who proved it.

At some point when should I believe if the rumors are actually true?

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

You're too sympathetic, the General said. You didn't see the danger in the major because he was fat and you took pity on him for that. Now the evidence shows that you've been willfully blind to the fact that Sonny is not only a left-wing radical but potentially a communist sleeper agent.

You can't judge a woman by her clothes, insufficient evidences!

During the first few days a total of forty-three officers would visit the crime scene, looking for weapons and other evidence. In searching the loft above the living room, Sergeant Mike McGann found a film can containing a roll of video-tape. Sergeant Ed Henderson took it to the Police Academy, which had screening facilities. The film showed Sharon and Roman Polanski making love. With a certain delicacy, the tape was not booked into evidence but was returned to the loft where it had been found.

Sheriff Don Ward talked to the two miners in Shoshone and

Vincent Bugliosi

Even without all the independent evidence proving that Oswald killed Kennedy, it was obvious that Oswald's murder of Tippit alone proved it was he who murdered Kennedy.

by Sergeant McGann, Deemer went to Massachusetts. A check of the time cards at the auto company in Sheffield revealed that Pickett's last workday was August 1, eight days before the homicides. Moreover, though two stores in Marlboro sold Buck knives, neither had ever stocked this particular model. Pickett's status as a

a total of fifty lifts were taken from the residence

Sooner or later, all conspiracy theories, no matter how outlandish, must eventually rest a certain set of facts. And facts can be checked.

A murder trial is not a Sunday-afternoon tea party.