Quotes About Evidence

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.