Quotes About Evidence

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for '[intelligent] design.' If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

I think science is real.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.