Absence Of Evidence Quotes

#1. And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

Ian Tattersall

#2. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Carl Sagan

#3. There is actually a certain value in not finding anything,' he said. 'It helps cosmologists to work out the rate at which galaxies are evolving. It's one of those rare areas where the absence of evidence is evidence.

Bill Bryson

#4. Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

Howard Markel

#5. Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Michael Crichton

#6. We can also see from the turkey story the mother of all harmful mistakes: mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Gregory Benford

#8. The Scriptures categorically state that the problem with such people is not the absence of evidence; it is, rather, the suppression of it. The message of Jesus Christ shifts the charge of insufficiency from the volume of evidence to the intent of one's will.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

Donald Rumsfeld

#10. Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?

Prince Ea

#11. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Ronnie Montrose

#12. What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Peter Singer

#13. Surrender unconditionally, even in the absence of evidence, to the truth of the cosmos.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#14. In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

David Eller

#15. Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

John C. Lennox

#16. The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident manner, without argument or proof, then their hearers will tend to believe them quite independently of their soundness and of the presence or absence of evidence for their truth.

Robert H. Thouless

#17. In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Tucker Carlson

#18. Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#19. The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

Dallin H. Oaks

#20. The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

Stephen Jay Gould

#21. Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of the practicalities of faith, it has certainly produced massive evidence of the damage and disorder of its absence.

Wendell Berry

#22. Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

Toni Morrison

#23. If a thing is claimed to exist, and its existence has consequences, then the absence of those consequences is evidence against the existence of the thing.

Jerry A. Coyne

#24. Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass Sunstein points out, the precautionary principle is costly, and when interpreted strictly it can be paralyzing.

Daniel Kahneman

#25. In the absence of any concrete evidence. I plump for Leonard Stock as the murderer. First, because he's the most unlikely person, and as anyone who has ever read a murder story knows, it's always the most unlikely person who turns out to have done the deed--and fifty thousand authors can't be wrong.

M.M. Kaye

#26. The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.

Anthony Storr

#27. There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind ... there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Bertrand Russell

#28. ...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when the evidence is less precise or less tangible than we would like it to be, some explanations are still more likely than others.

Mary Lefkowitz

#29. Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.

Howard W. Hunter

#30. There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking place where something was before.

Bruce Springsteen

#31. Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

PZ Myers

#32. The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden ... A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

C.S. Lewis

#33. With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!' Oh, this act of mercy is so easy for you, for in the absence of anything like real evidence it will be too awful for you to pronounce: 'Yes, he is guilty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky