Quotes About Evidence

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.

One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.

As has been the case throughout the history of terrorism, government anxiety centres on what to do about those against whom there may be intelligence but no usable evidence.

As the American national consensus shifts from a traditional, God-centered worldview to a secular, man-centered philosophy, perspectives and priorities change. History, however, does not. It may be ignored, reinterpreted, revised, or even concealed, but the historical evidence remains unchanged: America was forged in faith.

And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.

operation of the senses, everyone can furnish as many examples as he likes

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Tant la réalité a d'évidence ... Tant cette évidence s'impose! ... Dès que les choses sont arrivées, nous ne pensons même plus qu'elles auraient pu ne pas être ... Ou qu'elles auraient pu être toutes différentes.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. - Roger Tory Peterson

Europe is like a besieged town. Fever is raging. Whoever will not rave like the rest is suspected. And in these hurried times when justice cannot wait to study evidence, every suspect is a traitor.

questioning existing knowledge through a critical inquiry into evidence and its reading.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything

The first absolutely certain record which places it upon 25 December is the calendar of Philocalus, produced in 354 and apparently at Rome.

According to Pulitzer Prize-winning truth-checkers Politifact, a firm which compares each candidate's statements to evidence, Trump's statements were verifiably false 76 percent of the time when he ran for office in 2016.

One picture is worth 1 000 denials.

As Einstein said years later, talking to Sir Herbert Samuel in the grounds of Government House, Jerusalem: "If Michelson-Morley is wrong, then relativity is wrong.

Why does it spiral downward, why do things tend to look more and more hopeless? For the same reason that red Dodge pickups seem to proliferate on the highways as soon as you buy one and that pregnant women appear out of nowhere approximately eight months before your baby is due. The more attention you shine on a particular subject, the more evidence of it will grow. Attention is like light and air and water. Shine attention on obstacles and problems and they multiply lavishly.

Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.

One by one most kids I knew quit drawing and never drew again. It left behind too much evidence.