Quotes About Evidence

take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.

I also hope to challenge financial thinkers to improve their theories by testing them against the impressive evidence that suggests that the price level is more than merely the sum of the available economic information, as is now generally thought to be the case.

Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.

A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not...well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things.

The mutilation of the next victim was even more severe. In fact, the corpse was dismembered and scattered across two counties: the head found in Long Beach; the torso, right leg and both arms in San Pedro; the left leg in Sunset Beach. There were rope marks on the wrists and evidence that the corpse had been refrigerated prior to disposal. 

The information in the folder did not constitute proof, only data that could or could not bolster the conjectures he had made.

In other words, while evidence of corporate social responsibility (scenario C) boosts sales a bit, it's far more effective when the individual and the business share social responsibility and the individual determines the amount of money donated.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

Hem Bayan Allan elimizde bir kan?t olmad??? sürece insanlar?n bize doÄŸruyu söylediklerinden ÅŸüphe etmememiz gerektiÄŸini söyledi.

A defense attorney, at least a good defense attorney, never tries to convince anyone of anything. We do the opposite. We remind everyone you can't know anything for sure.

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.

I'd worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new.

You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And

Are we never to educate ourselves to foresee such dangers and to prevent them before they happen? All the evidence of history shows that laws unknown and unsuspected are being discovered day by day: as this knowledge accumulates for the use of man, is it not certain that the ability to see and destroy beforehand the threat of danger will be one of the privileges the whole world will utilise?

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.