Quotes About Evidence

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Well, the IG's role is to find facts, not to necessarily make conclusions.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

Music is everything. Evidence of the divine. The possibility of man to be good. The possibility of improving our surroundings and expressing ourselves. All of these things are collapsed together in my mind.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

The nature of the government's surveillance on me and my family is forensically proven and not subject to legitimate question.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Lack of lawful access certainly affects our ability to do our jobs, but we know where the harm really falls when evidence is kept unavailable - it falls on innocent people, the people we're sworn to protect.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

There will always be people who will judge a situation, even without looking at the evidence, in order to avoid having to believe in the reality and power of God. So I told the press on no uncertain terms, 'Some of you guys don't want to believe God healed me. Well, He really did heal me, and if you got a problem with that, don't ask me no more questions'.

a politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence

We take the position that research - not anecdotes, not "plausible beliefs", not common sense, and not our everyday experience - should be the basis for understanding and evaluating our decision-making achievements and defeats.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

I was especially delighted with the mathematics, on account of the certitude and evidence of their reasonings; but I had not as yet a precise knowledge of their true use; and thinking that they but contributed to the advancement of the mechanical arts, I was astonished that foundations, so strong and solid, should have had no loftier superstructure reared on them.