Quotes About Evidence

É verdadeiro o que se manifesta aos sentidos.

arguments from authority are invalid; the proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship;

As a prosecutor, you've got the burden of proof. As a defense lawyer, all you have to do is introduce a tiny doubt.

Lacy took the box she'd brought up from the basement and placed each item inside. Here was the crime scene: look at what was left behind and try to re-create the boy.

Surely I missed the Bloodsucking Your Client class in law school, since all evidence points to me being the poster boy for Financially Ruined Defense Attorneys.

You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans' having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored. The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It gave a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it. The

Facts are stubborn things.

It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness

Dear brothers and sisters, what's the use of saying you have faith if you don't prove it by your actions? That kind of faith can't save anyone. It isn't enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn't show itself by good deeds is no faith at all—it is dead and useless.

In God's eyes, partial or selective obedience is the same as rebellion to His authority. It is the evidence of a lack of the fear of God!

You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.

A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers. Where

These troubles and distresses you are experiencing in these waters are no indication that God has abandoned you. Rather, they are sent to test you to see whether or not you will recall the evidences of his past goodness and rely upon him in your present distresses.

Good writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments. When the evidence is well presented, the reader's judgments will agree with those implicit in the writing. But nothing is more disastrous to the communication between writer and reader than a series of implicit judgments with which the reader cannot agree or which he finds to be simply silly or for which he is given no evidence he can respect.

Once you've got -- actually got -- an idea that is whirring around so fast that no other light or contrary evidence can come in, I think it's very dangerous.

Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

Theory can blind observation.

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.