Quotes About Evidence

I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.

I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

I wrote a best-selling book, and if you don't believe me, you can come into my basement; I'll show you every copy.

There is no evidence that Republican leaders have been demonstrably dumber than their Democratic counterparts.

'Scott and Bailey' was very much forensically interested in the ins and outs of the way they went about cracking a case from the point of something happening to how they managed to arrest someone.

There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted.

I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas.

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

If I'm not a good talker, so be it, but my record will speak for itself.

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

I like my murders to start at the beginning with the corpse and go on to the end with the conviction. But when you start in the middle with the confession—well, all I can say is, that it's all wrong!

The first prerequisite of the serious historical researcher must be the ability to jettison dearly held interpretations in the face of the recalcitrance of the evidence.

The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ.

A statement that mathematicians believe but cannot as yet prove is called a "conjecture".