Faith Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the…

— Daniel Kahneman

“the weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe”

— Alison Weir

“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their capacity to…

— Thomas Gilovich

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence…

— Blaine Lee Pardoe

“One of the simplest and yet most powerful ways we do so lies in how we frame the very question we ask of the…

— Thomas Gilovich

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual…

— Michael Polanyi

“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence…

— Paula Stokes

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so…

— Chauncey Wright

“Believing a given proposition is a matter of believing that it faithfully represents some state of the world, and this fact yields some immediate…

— Sam Harris

“entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.”

— Frans de Waal

There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication....

— Morris K. Jessup