Quotes About Evidence

Vincent Bugliosi

So the non-Christian argues against the Christian idea of God by using non-Christian definitions of love, evil, evidence, necessity, and other key terms. Then why not also argue against a non-Christian idea of God and leave us out of the debate altogether? The argument from the problem of evil is best used by non-Christians against non-Christians.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

New York isn't jobs, they reply, it's temperament. Most people are in New York because they need evidence - in large quantities - of human expressiveness; and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot.

in view of the extreme complexity of the phenomena of social life it is always possible to select any number of examples or separate data to prove any proposition),

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

In God we trust. All others [must] have data.

This teaching is similar to the statement of William Perkins: "The desire for grace is an evidence of grace.

The Greenbaum effect is the tendency of Americans to choose outlandish and unsupported conspiracy theories while ignoring the conspiratorial actions of political and economic elites that are backed by evidence.

I have nothing but a book, Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities

It was the absence of doubt—and scientific rigor—that made medicine unscientific and caused it to stagnate for so long.

Los israelitas dieron amplias pruebas de que podemos llegar a desear las señales sin desear en realidad a Dios.