Quotes About Evidence

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

By far the best proof is experience.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.