Quotes About Evidence

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

The word "conviction" means to expose.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

wanted—I needed—to know that I had indeed seen him, not some apparition conjured up by the Crawler, and I clutched at anything that would help me believe that. What convinced me the most wasn't the photograph—it was the sample the anthropologist had taken from the edge of the Crawler, the sample that had proven to be human brain tissue.

Sabon further speculates that Glaring's embezzlement had been discovered and was used as leverage to make him forge the journal pages, for otherwise, some of his relatives having disappeared in the Silence, he would have been disinclined to suppress evidence as to mushroom dweller involvement.127

Because teachers' work consists of affecting their students, they are dependent on their students both for the actual success of their work and evidence of that success

What I offer in this book are stories of hanging in, the practice-based evidence from working with our most challenging students,

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

a recent review of the evidence concluded that there is a very small and statistically insignificant relationship between student evaluations and learning, and that "the more objectively learning is measured, the less likely it is to be related to the evaluations."48 Another review also concluded that "teacher ratings and learning are not closely related

evidence shows most workplaces filled with distrustful, disengaged, dissatisfied, despairing employees.

A review of some 113 published studies concluded that there was good evidence for a relationship between health and productivity

It was the clearest evidence so far, according to many in the Mueller office, that the president had committed a crime in office—obstruction of justice.