Quotes About Evidence

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're actually in a religious discussion, one more zealot arguing with another. Have I mentioned I'm not on Facebook?

It's one thing to kill someone and not leave evidence or hide the body so it's never found, but to be able to murder someone and have everyone think it was an accident of nature? That's some kind of genius.

more evidence so I don't look like a conspiracy-theory crackpot when I try to point out that not only was the real Toy Man not killed a few days ago in a Brazilian prison before he could be extradited, he's actually a war criminal living as a minister in Georgia.

How do you weigh the known versus the unknown? You can't. It all comes down to what statistics you choose to believe.

Bayesian statistics?

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're actually in a religious discussion, one more zealot arguing with another

I have a ready response for those people: What amount of evidence would convince you that you are wrong? For the truthers, moon-landing hoaxers, and extremists on both sides of any issue, the answer is simple: nothing.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Because if it weren't a hopeless case, he wouldn't be waiting for me on my doorstep. I don't get the low-hanging fruit, the "It was the handyman with the criminal past" type of cases. I get the ones where there is no evidence. No clues. Not even a body. Just an empty place where a person used to be.

Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory.

Even testing a theory and reaching an expected conclusion doesn't really "prove" it in the sense that people think. It only changes the degree of certainty.

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're

I'm wary of too-convenient explanations or mental boogeymen that exonerate us from being lazy and making bad choices, but I can't deny that the evidence is growing that a number of behaviors and diseases may not be due to defects in our genes, but to the survival mechanisms of the biome within us.

It's a childish worldview to choose what to believe and what not to in the face of the evidence. Playing peekaboo with the facts doesn't make them disappear.

If being young is a crime scene," I said, "the evidence from that night is everywhere.

As a Free Trader, he was convinced by Mayo's detailed arguments, supported by a large quantity of evidence, that far from Britain being an economic drain on India, trade had been mutually beneficial.117 The fact that almost all the richest people in India were Indian merchants or princes, not Britons, struck him as further evidence that the British were not the exploitative colonialists of other European empires in Asia and Africa.

Our history is a material history, not just a succession of thoughts or speech acts.

The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.

É preciso comprovar a culpa, e não a inocência.

Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all." A GRAIN OF TRUTH I A number of black points moving against a bright sky streaked with mist drew the witcher's attention.

Esa sería la primera prueba que llegase a mi conocimiento de que la incredulidad tenga alguna clase de poder.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "...Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

Always remember: science first!