Evidence Quotes - Page 38

• ... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and his ideas.

  Ronald Fisher

  Light, Years, Ideas

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• A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

  Paul Kurtz

  Consistency, Adequacy, Asking

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• I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that evidence has only gotten stronger over the years.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Powerful, Years

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I was thoroughly stunned by the quantity and quality of the evidence for Christ.

  Lee Strobel

  Quality, Christ, Quantity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Moving, Swimming

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any real doubt that it's true.

  Lee Strobel

  Real, Doubt, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube, there aren't any footnotes - and they want to know why did you say this. Well if they bothered to look up something in print, they would've seen why I said that. If they ask for evidence, I just say well take a look and mention something they can read and that usually ends the conversation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, Want, Saws

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

  Jill Stein

  Vaccines, Developmental Disabilities, Links

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• On the other hand, there was hard evidence of real tampering in the election, and that was the email, you know, that were revealed from the DNC, that showed, in fact, that the DNC was collaborating with Hillary's [Clinton] campaign, and with some members of the corporate media, to smear Bernie Sanders and to really pull the rug out from under him. So, there's no doubt about that tampering, and that's when they began to say, oh, the Russians are doing this terrible stuff to our election.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Media, Hands

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence.

  Jon Shenk

  Justice, Drunk, Trials

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise doubt about how you could conclude something caused cancer, that they put so much effort into getting so many receptive public health authorities to say, "Well, causation requires that these five things be met." So that is, in fact, nonsense.

  Devra Davis

  Cancer, Epidemiology, Ideas

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [Donald] Trump has said that I would like to sit down and talk to people, work things out. Well, guess what? Some of the evidence is that was, he went straight to Mexico and sat down and had a conference and a meeting directly with Pea Nieto to go over all this. OK, that.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  People, Mexico, Down And

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

  Michael Helm

  People, Anxiety, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Psychological, Reactions, Should

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it to cognitive psychotherapy; in some cases you have to reject it even if it does indeed stay.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Intuition, Doe, Treats

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lying, Believe, Years

  Source: time.com

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• According to international law, in order to use force, we need to feel, we need good evidence that we are under imminent threat of actual attack. And I think we need to stand up for international law.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Decision, Want

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that we have is how biotic systems have responded in the past.

  Kenneth Lacovara

  Past, Earth, Want

  "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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• There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

  Kenneth Lacovara

  Years, Doubt, Would Be

  "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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• Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and how much I can leave out is relatively easy as it is because the true believers already know everything. They know a lot of things that are not true and they know a lot of things that I thought were (and seems there's very good evidence not to believe) and therefore, my starting point was I think to tell his myth because that's what grabbed me.

  Jonathon Keats

  Book, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.

  Elliott Sober

  Two, Silence, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false will be more predictively accurate than a model known to be true. This opens the door to a kind of instrumentalism.

  Elliott Sober

  Doors, Hands, Interesting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

  Elliott Sober

  Ideas, Littles, Ancestry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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