Quotes About Evidence

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it. You invariably do.

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who

complete with carbon-14 signatures

He had expected, at minimum, to be able to examine tread marks and a trail of crushed vegetation and small trees the trailer had surely sheared on its slide down the hill, like a butter knife of the gods.

Confirmation bias. This is our tendency to seek out information that supports and reinforces our beliefs, and ignore or discount any information that is contrary to them. So we stick to our guns, even against overwhelming evidence that we're wrong.

When it comes to the existence of UFOs, we've reached a tipping point. The burden of proof used to be on the believers to prove that UFOs are real. Now the burden of proof has shifted to the government and military to prove that they're not real. Because the evidence is overwhelming." —Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics, City College of New York

cling to these cherished beliefs with superhuman tenacity. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that we're wrong.

James condemns any form of Christianity that drifts into a sterile, actionless "orthodoxy." Faith, not what we do, is fundamental in establishing a relationship with God. But faith, James insists, must be given content. Genuine faith, he insists, always and inevitably produces evidence of its existence in a life of righteous living.

Scholars may contribute their knowledge or insight to public debate on important issues. They may contribute it in a form that is understandable to a policymaker, or even to the public, consistently with their duty of rigorous intellectual honesty. Scholars should not feel constrained to publish only turgid prose in obscure journals. They should not leave the public debate to those who feel no scruples whatever to conform their claims to the evidence.

It may be argued that intellectual achievement, as measured by consistently high grades in all subjects, is evidence of motivation and willingness to work. Perhaps it is—in the academic setting—but it is also evidence of willingness to conform to the quite arbitrary demands of the educational system. There

The criticism of The Bell Curve demonstrated why almost nobody wanted to go over the evidence that suggests that intelligence test scores vary with ethnic group and that just as some groups score higher on intelligence tests, others must score lower. This of course is not to say that everybody in such groups does. As Murray and Herrnstein were at pains to point out repeatedly, the differences within racial groups were larger than the differences between them.

Dismissiveness, no matter how forcefully or broadly it may be communicated, has no persuasive value when attempting to reject evidence that calls one's view into question. - Douglas Petrovich 19 March 2021

you should start thinking about measurements as a multistep chain of thought. Inferences can be made from highly indirect observations.

Douglas W. Hubbard

Faith is not wishful thinking; faith apprehends the promises of God found in Scripture. "The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee" (Ps. 102:28). Faith sees a son as established, and the work of faith goes on to establish him. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

La sensación de que el yo es permanente se deriva de la existencia de patrones coherentes que son recurrentes y de gran duración temporal. La recurrencia, predictibilidad y coherencia temporal de estos patrones se interpreta como evidencia de que existe un yo fijo y permanente, cuando, en realidad, solamente se trata de un proceso con ciertas características invariantes pero nunca con una existencia concreta e inamovible.

La evidencia experimental acerca de la existencia del Hipercampo indica, además, que toda una comunidad puede estar siendo influenciada por patrones no conscientes que determinan modos de activación comunes.

En el laboratorio hemos demostrado (Grinberg-Zylberbaum y J. Ramos, 1987) (ver siguiente capítulo) que cuando dos sujetos se comunican, el que posee mayor correlación interhemisférica (es decir, el más sintérgico y unificado) atrae hacia su nivel de coherencia al que posee menos correlación interhemisférica. Esta evidencia experimental sustenta y apoya las consideraciones antes expuestas.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.

In order to be able to infer that "A causes B," we need to be able to run the experiment many times.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.