Quotes About Evidence

The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.

the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

A chance word or a sigh are just as much evidence as a speech or a murder: the life they reveal ceases to be secret and enters the realm of action.

Some Church leaders have come up with ingenious explanations for the complete failure to find any evidence supporting the Book of Mormon. In a March 25, 1964, address, Fletcher B.Hammond said: `:.. The Gentiles have not yet received the Book of Mormon by faith... and until they do... it appears that empirical facts will not be allowed to come forth as evidence of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon... ."'S

The feathers in the one pillow on the bed were duck down. The feather found, therefore, had not come from the pillow. It was found stuck to a smear of blood, so chances were it was left by the killer and not left by someone who'd been in the room previous to the killer. If the killer, therefore, had a pigeon feather stuck to his clothes, chances were he was a pigeon fancier. All the cops had to do was track down every pigeon fancier in the city. That job was for the birds.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Never trust an experimental result until it has been confirmed by theory

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.

And the truth shall bear witness of itself. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

Most often the presence of such gifts of the Spirit creates a desire for their exercise. By them a man is drawn to the Word, to Christ, to men. For this reason a deep and sincere desire to enter the ministry is the commonest evidence of the Lord's calling. It is no sure criterion, however, for the gifts and desire are not always joined.

Contrary to the popular belief that educators across the world have typically been agents for progressive racial change, the weight of the evidence suggests that most educational systems and most educators operate to maintain racial hierarchy rather than to challenge it.

Often we are persuaded by authority and repetition rather than by evidence and reality.

Search for evidence and don't be satisfied until you know the why.

I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses.

Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth.

This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.

Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness].

Flagrante delicto ["Red-handed"].