Quotes About Evidence

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

History is a science, no more and no less.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.