Quotes About Evidence

If you're going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the eyewitnesses are dead and gone.

Faith is like a mental illness," Richard Dawkins has said, "a great cop out, the excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence."2 Sam Harris agrees, saying, "We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common, we call them religious. Otherwise, they are likely to be called mad, delusional, or psychotic."3

5) No hay pruebas para apoyar el argumento de que estas víctimas, casi todas niños pequeños, fueran parte de un combate o hubieran sido atrapadas en un enfrentamiento de fuego cruzado. Por el contrario, las pruebas apoyan fuertemente la conclusión de que fueron víctimas intencionales de una ejecución masiva extrajudicial.

effect, proponents of this theory believe we are somebody's biology experiment.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

We know that if a study is funded by a food company, it is eight times more likely to turn up positive findings for that food company's product.

According to this new evidence, most of our thinking (including our moral judgment) is not a pristinely rational process in the traditional sense, and therefore reasoning is not a bloodless, emotionless, purely formal logical process. Instead, we need an intact and functioning emotional apparatus in order for our reason to have any possibility of operating appropriately in a given situation.

studies have failed to find any substantial evidence proving a relationship between sugar consumption and hyperactivity.

Wise, spiritual faith—the kind I'm advocating—is a commitment of trust based on solid, though incomplete, evidence that we're believing in the right things and moving in the best direction.

Scientific Approach 7 Systematic Empiricism 7 Public Verification 7 Solvable Problems 8 The Scientist's Two Jobs:

The call for journalists to adopt objectivity was an appeal for them to develop a consistent method of testing information—a transparent approach to evidence—precisely so that personal and cultural biases would not undermine the accuracy of their work.

There is therefore considerable evidence to suggest that Bhindranwale's release was ordered by the Home Minister. He certainly still enjoyed Zail Singh's patronage.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Climate change is like my head: it's not visible in every instance, but I'm pretty darn sure it's there.

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.