Quotes About Evidence

You know you really don't need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

The mistake, Digby, of choosing to see more in your future mate than the evidence has already suggested.

After a long time, she says, "You won't make my mistake, will you?" Her gaze is soft and smiling once more, her wistful expression gone. "What mistake is that . . . Celeste?" "The mistake, Digby, of choosing to see more in your future mate than the evidence has already suggested.

For most of human history, ignorance was inevitable. There were limited channels for information to spread. As knowledge becomes more freely available, ignorance is increasingly a choice. Opening your mind to evidence that challenges your opinions opens the door to learning.

this was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.

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This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

there is no contemporary evidence even for the existence of Jesus Christ, arguably the most influential man in history. Most of our tales about his life were written in the decades after his death by people who had never met him.

In the genomes of the dead we can see natural selection at work.

We have good evidence that Homo erectus, that highly successful human who walked all over the Earth from 1.9 million years ago until around 140,000 years ago, was a fire user in some capacity. The dates when they first utilised fire remain disputed.

have fallen into the tempting trap of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

Doubt is the cornerstone of science. It gives you a sure footing from which to build an argument based on data.

We have no room for the mystical in science

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

It wasn't a conventional divorce trial. The king's advisers wouldn't allow that, for fear that Caroline would introduce counterevidence of her husband's adultery, of which there was plenty.

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.

Everything that people say is testable.

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse.

Si se tratara de un problema rigurosamente técnico, sin interferencias ideológicas, hasta el perfecto idiota terminaría aceptando como evidencia que el modelo liberal rinde mejores resultados. Pero la ideología, como las religiones, se alimenta de dogmas de fe

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.