Quotes About Evidence

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.