Scientific Evidence Quotes:

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Change, Humility, Learning, Information Science, Good Science

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Faith, Understanding, Belief, Scientific Evidence

The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.

- Robert S. Mendelsohn

topic: Lying, Effort, Childhood, Vaccinations, Scientific Evidence

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

- Jodie Foster

source: "Calgary Sun" Newspaper, July 10, 2007.

topic: Believe, Existence, Evidence, Scientific Evidence

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

- Damon Lindelof

topic: Spiritual, Fundamentals, Wipe, Spiritual Beliefs, Scientific Evidence

Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Animal, Feelings, Brain, Scientific Evidence

How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

- Nicholas Stern

topic: Voice, Experts, Faces, Scientific Evidence

These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is always right-to such an extent that they refuse to believe even the most overwhelming scientific evidence if it seems to suggest a justification for government action.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Believe, Thinking, Government, Scientific Evidence

Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with them, and they always do what they do in the name of an unknowable deity... but sometimes, they wake up. Occasionally, they realize that all religions are man-made and that none of them are ‘right.’ And when they do, they can live happy and fulfilling lives without dogma and without anticipating or fearing an afterlife.

- David G. McAfee

source: FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Jan 13, 2013

topic: Book, Men, Names, Fulfilling Life, Scientific Evidence

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.

- Marsden Wagner

topic: Baby, Outcomes, Cesarean, Scientific Evidence

There is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don't think the evidence is conclusive.

- Kelly Ayotte

source: "Ayotte wants budget cuts" by Deborah McDermott, www.seacoastonline.com. September 30, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Impact, Republican, Scientific Evidence, Human Activity

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

- Phillip E. Johnson

topic: Agreement, Matter, Fossils, Scientific Evidence

If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

- Barack Obama

topic: Religious, Sincere, Condom, Scientific Evidence

Currently, without scientific evidence demonstrating safety or effectiveness, we continue to urge Canadians against the use of these e-cigarettes. We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report.

- Rona Ambrose

topic: Effectiveness, Safety, Smoking, Scientific Evidence

What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

- Simon Baron-Cohen

topic: Play, Differences, Worry, Nature Vs Nurture, Gender Differences

As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

- Richard Louv

topic: Children, Stress, Emotional, Hyperactivity, Adhd

Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.

- Daniel Pauly

topic: Motivation, Common Sense, Elements, Operators, Fisheries

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

- Tony Blair

topic: Technology, Medicine, People, Scientific Evidence

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

- David Attenborough

topic: Men, Views, Years, Scientific Evidence

Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

- Victor J. Stenger

source: Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

topic: Prayer, Philosophical, Religion, Scientific Evidence

The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?

- Francis Collins

topic: Believe, Views, Discipline, Gloss, Concluding

The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

- Isaac Asimov

source: Isaac Asimov (1989). “Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective”, Doubleday Books

topic: Taken, Years, Matter, Tooth Fairy, Scientific Evidence

Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.

- D. James Kennedy

source: "Sam Allardyce, the man: England's new boss from childhood to heart scare and being football's Mr Fix It" by Michael Gadd, www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2016.

topic: Support, Religion, Atheism, Scientific Evidence

But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text...

- Frederick Seitz

topic: Keys, Energy, Climate, Scientific Evidence

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure."

- Naomi Oreskes

topic: Strong, Sides, Scientist, Scientific Evidence

NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.

- Walter Cunningham

topic: Agency, Hysteria, Becoming, Scientific Evidence

I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

- T. Colin Campbell

topic: Years, Data, Eggs, Scientific Evidence

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

- Al Gore

topic: Becoming, Serious, Climate, Scientific Evidence

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

- Michael Shermer

source: Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company

topic: Soul, Doe, Evidence, Scientific Evidence

There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death.

- Jean Ritchie

topic: Believe, Law, People, Near Death, Circumstantial Evidence

A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

- Jonathon Porritt

topic: Years, Growth, Cost, Scientific Evidence

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response

- Nicholas Stern

source: "Buying carbon credits cost-effective and necessary". www.irishtimes.com. December 14, 2006.

topic: Risk, Demand, Serious, Scientific Evidence

The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.

- Christopher Booker

topic: Cancer, People, Support, Scientific Evidence

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

- Bob Newhart

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Brain, Stammering, Stuttering

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.

- David Deutsch

topic: Biblical, Years, Data, Intellectual Dishonesty, Creationism

This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Support, Half, Want, Scientific Evidence

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: Long, Way, Logic, Scientific Evidence

I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

- Chuck Yeager

source: "Chuck Yeager: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

topic: Scientific Evidence

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

- Martin Seligman

source: Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.8, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

topic: Pursuit Of Happiness, Self, People, Scientific Evidence

Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.

- Samuel Homola

topic: Pain, Support, Manipulation, Back Pain, Scientific Evidence

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

- Jane Roberts

topic: Afterlife, Personality, Doe, Scientific Evidence, No Reason

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

- Bryan Sykes

source: Bryan Sykes (2007). “Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Evidence, Ambiguous, Myth, Archaeology, Scientific Evidence

Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.111, Dell

topic: Mean, Men, Understanding, Scientific Evidence

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

- Stanley Fish

topic: Pro Life, Choices, Historical, Pro Choice Abortion, Scientific Evidence

I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection indicates pretty clearly that we don't think in language necessarily. We also think in visual images, we think in terms of situations and events, and so on, and many times we can't even express in words what the content of our thinking is. And even if we are able to express it in words, it is a common experience to say something and then to recognize that it is not what we meant, that it is something else.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: chomsky.info

topic: Thinking, Common Experience, Able, Introspection, Visual Images