Quotes About Evidence

There's no better way to build confidence in a theory than to believe it is not testable.

Fundamentalists didn't try to disprove science. They didn't argue against it. They pronounced against it! It was the equivalent of a parent clinching an argument with a child by shouting: 'because I say so'. That's what fundamentalist religion does. It refutes not by evidence but by authority. Why is Darwin wrong? Because the Bible says so! But they did more than pontificate. They tried to ban science itself. That's

fundamentalist religion does. It refutes not by evidence but by authority

This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

He held up his hands to the moonlit mountain evidence. The wind-bent trees. The roar of the nearby river. The electrons tumbling down the staircase of their atoms in this singular atmosphere. His face, in the dark, struggled for accuracy. This rich. That's how rich.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "false evidence appearing real.

Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.

One of the unfortunate side effects of teaching for forty years was that the task was so monumental, even in recollection, that it sometimes seemed you'd tried to teach everyone on the planet. What Miss Beryl looked for in each adult face was the evidence of some failed lesson in some distant yesterday that might predict incompetence today.

The loss of a place isn't really so different from the loss of a person. Both disappear without permission, leaving the self diminished, in need of testimony and evidence. This happened. I was there.

How, he couldn't help wondering, did you get to be this woman's age and still believe, as she apparently did, that everything meant something? She was obviously one of those people who just soldiered on, determined to believe whatever gave them comfort in the face of all contrary evidence. And maybe that wasn't so dumb. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

High performers pick the shortest path to the right evidence to make decisions that matter.

his hardest cases, where parents, upstanding people, had reported children missing but were later proven to have lied to cover up abuse, an accidental death or a homicide. He had looked into the eyes of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and friends as they lied, watched their tears, even believed that they were convinced in the truth of their own lies until the facts, the evidence, emerged and the incontrovertible truth was revealed.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing

Rebecca's eyes were like faith,—the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

What it requires is admitting the possible. Believing the evidence of your eyes and ears without trying to explain it all away. Accepting that you'll never be able to cross every t and dot every i. And most of all, it requires a willingness to believe that science isn't the ultimate authority. Just because something can't be rationally explained on the basis of today's science doesn't mean it isn't real.

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

our objective at trial is not the ultimate truth but an opinion in our favour.

It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.

You want a logical explanation? String the facts together. The scenes.

If you start a witch hunt, you have to find some witches.

Regii È™i conÈ›ii aveau nevoie de dovezi ale vener?rii È™i, cu cât, erau de rang mai mic, cu atât pretindeau mai mult respect.

passages proved the correctness of Protestant teaching.