Quotes About Evidence

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

City hall was a disaster. My uncle's fault, and China Joe had the proof of it.

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A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

E contra factos tudo são argumentos.

But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi

In light of such evidence as is now available, Nostradamus's 'prophecy' seems not to have been a 'prophecy' at all, but a species of blueprint for action, perhaps some sort of coded instruction or signal.

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

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Then there is the "intelligent" signal from outer space that has defied explanation for thirty years; the enigma of our sense of free will despite all scientific evidence to the contrary; the spacecraft that are being pushed off course by an unknown force; the trouble we have explaining the origin of both sex and death using our best biological theories … the list goes on.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.

At the end of every scientific paper there is a familiar coda: more research is needed, more research is needed. What, I wondered, if we added a new coda: more action is needed. It need not be discordant with the first.

The future of Judaism depended upon many other centres of the Jewish Dispersion even more than upon Rome. But archaeological evidence for all these centres remains sparse. There were catacombs at Venusia (Venosa) in south Italy. The Jewish necropolis

While the pathology of stroke and Alzheimer's are different, one key factor unites them: Mounting evidence suggests that a healthy diet may help prevent them both.

casualties of the Korean War, with an average age of around twenty-two. Shockingly, 77 percent of soldiers already had visible evidence of coronary