Quotes About Evidence

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There is absolutely no proof that human well-being inevitably improves as history rolls along. There is no proof that cultures that are beneficial to humans must inexorably succeed and spread, while less beneficial cultures disappear

numerous theories and stories have been ascribed to the Buddha, often without any supporting evidence. But you need not believe any of them in order to meditate.

The chamber has come to be known as the "Queen's Chamber"; but the name is based on romantic notions and not on any shred of evidence

The reality is; there is something which exist but what that something is; remains a question. Either because we are not capable to reveal it yet or because with time and movement it changes itself and has no truth in it. But what's the reason for its existence without having or revealing any truth, that's the evidence we need to find."

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

very few people know that porn has not been shown to cause mental illness or crime... there is no evidence for this cause-effect relationship, according to many researchers who have tested this claim with studies.

Deniers are not the equivalents of flat-earth theorists, nor are they just plain loonies. Theirs is not a cognitive error that can be rectified by showing them documentation or evidence. They are, pure and simple, antisemites, and their agenda is to reinforce and spread the very antisemitism that produced the Holocaust. They can't be completely discounted.

Long before Eichmann's capture, Auerbach had conducted research on Operation 1005, the large-scale secret campaign to destroy evidence of the Final Solution by digging up the mass graves, pulverizing the bodies in specially adapted cement-mixer apparatuses, and erasing all traces of the atrocities. She also found two people who had participated as slave laborers in this effort. -- The Eichmann Trial, page 53

The Holocaust has the dubious distinction of being the best documented genocide in the world. For deniers to be right, all survivors would have to be wrong.

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

There's nothing worse than a messy dead body.

The proof is in the pudding - all you need to know is to look at the details.

The fact speak for themselves.

I believe that within the core of every human being dwells a yearning for the meaning that lies beyond the prosaic reality of everyday life. We reach out for evidence of something beyond the ordinary.

The policemen had clearly been there all morning: four big white tea mugs from the canteen were drained and drip-stained, red-and-gold wrappers from caramel log biscuits were folded into interesting shapes on one side of the table, rolled up into tight little balls on the other.

When a narrative chimes with pre-existing beliefs, it can seem so self-evidently true that all conflicting evidence is discarded.

Are you aware of this acronym for F.E.A.R: False Evidence Appearing Real.

En Dios Confiamos; Todos Los Otros Traen Datos.

Social network analysis offers a systematic method to evaluate social media efforts, replacing anecdotes with scientifically based evidence.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.