Inconclusive Evidence Quotes

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

In carefully scrutinizing the affairs of the past, we find that there are many different opinions about them, and that there are some things that are quite unclear. It is better to regard such things as unknowable.

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers.

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.