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Quotes About Evidence

Snap judgments are sometimes essential. As Daniel Kahneman puts it, "System 1 is designed to jump to conclusions from little evidence."13
~ Philip Tetlock
The point is now indisputable: when you have a well-validated statistical algorithm, use it.
~ Philip Tetlock
But by the end of the first century there is evidence to suggest that his surviving correspondence began to be collected into a Pauline corpus, which quickly circulated among the churches—first a shorter corpus of ten letters and soon afterwards a longer one of thirteen, enlarged by the inclusion of the three Pastoral
~ Philip W. Comfort
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~ Phillip Margolin
If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.
~ Phillips Brooks
Siento una punzada en el borde de mi corazón. Se trata de un dolor que viene con más lágrimas. Demasiada agua. Debe ser porque el hielo polar se está derritiendo. Debo ser la prueba viviente del efecto invernadero.
~ Phoebe Stone
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Cuius rei demostrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiquitas non caperet. Tengo una prueba verdaderamente maravillosa para esta afirmación, pero el margen es demasiado estrecho para contenerla.
~ Pierre de Fermat
We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.
~ Jeff Bezos
I delve into cold cases by scouring the Internet for any digital crumbs authorities may have overlooked, then share my theories with the 8,000 or so mystery buffs who visit my blog regularly.
~ Michelle McNamara
There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether it's safe to visit someone in a nursing home. But there are ways to deploy immunity information to help us understand our own health status and keep us safer from Covid, without surrendering privacy.
~ Scott Gottlieb
All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn't allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.
~ Christopher A. Wray
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.
~ Nicholas Stern
A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.
~ Jason Kander
There is just no evidence of rampant voter fraud when it comes to mail-in ballots.
~ Hallie Jackson
There's more evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election than there ever was of Russia collusion, so America is owed a legal examination of the election irregularities alleged by the Trump campaign.
~ Miranda Devine
I do believe that voter fraud has taken place.
~ Angela Stanton-King
Everything is self-evident.
~ Rene Descartes
Protect yourself by always having a record of what transpired or was said in any situation that might be considered sensitive.
~ Judy Smith
I have no record of racism or antisemitism, there is no evidence to support it, not even a shred of evidence.
~ Nicolas Anelka
I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.
~ Patty Hearst
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
~ Barry Schwartz
The decision on whether to ban anyone from the U.K. is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time.
~ Theresa May
I was actually quite small when I was young. No one believes me now, but I have pictures at home.
~ Jaap Stam