The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.
No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee. . . This was all stuff that was previously known.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.
The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance.
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.
It is vital that our work be grounded in the evidence and thus accepted by the public.
The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.
. . . but I’m trying to be inconspicuous. ” Cinder considered telling him it wasn't working but thought better of it. The lack of a throng of screaming girls surrounding her booth was probably evidence that it was working better than she suspected. Instead of looking like a royal heartthrob, he just looked crazy.
I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
