Quotes About Evidence

Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth5 as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.

The language of the Apostle well agrees with this view;   for he says that he was declared by power, because power, peculiar to   God, shone forth in him, and uncontestably proved him to be God; and   this was indeed made evident by his resurrection.

And this is the evidence of faith that we never allow ourselves to be torn away from Christ and the promises we have in him. The

There is a world of difference between inference and conjecture, and imagination must not roam at the cost of authenticity. Paul

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

The remarkable thing about the Diversity cult is that all the circumstances of the actual human world refute its tenets, wherever we look. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that there has never been an ideology so heartily and jealously embraced by all the main institutions of a society, that was at the same time so obviously at odds with the evidence of our senses. It is as if the entire Western world had committed itself to the belief that human beings can fly by flapping their arms.

They got the body out this morning, with a little silver crucifix twined about the neck. She had already written a note which she just addressed 'To the Police Department,' confessing that she had shot LaGarde. She confessed to a crime she did not commit.

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This is my working definition of history: History is the past reconstructed interactively by the present through argued evidence in public discourse. There are times we can get only alternative perspectives on the same event. (There are always alternative perspectives, even when we do not hear them.) But history as argued public reconstruction is necessary to reconstruct our past in order to project our future.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

if a proposition cannot be falsified, it is not scientific.

he did not suffer bullet wounds.

Don't stay too long where you aren't understood or appreciated. Just as people with ADD gain a great deal from supportive groups, they are particularly drained and demoralized by negative groups, and they have a tendency to stay with them too long, vainly trying to make things work out, even when all the evidence shows they can't.

Neither Jerry nor I believed the efficient market theory. I had overwhelming evidence of inefficiency from blackjack, from the history of Warren Buffett and friends, and from our daily success in Princeton Newport Partners. We didn't ask, Is the market efficient? but rather, In what ways and to what extent is the market inefficient? and How can we exploit this?

if our conception of human nature is to be altered, it must be by means of truths conforming to the canons of scientific evidence and not a new dogma however devoutly wished for.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular

Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.

In fact, one of Gopnik's most important arguments is that this cognitive flexibility and creativity is a design feature of youth. She and her colleagues review evidence that suggests that when it comes to novel learning tasks, the young of many species often outperform their elders.20 This is certainly true of humans.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.