Conclusion Before Evidence Quotes

“These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

“But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“Don’t conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It's a capital mistake to draw conclusion without data.”
― Abhijit Naskar, All For Acceptance

“The wise person must always consider and reconsider all the alternatives before jumping to the final conclusion. Furthermore, the objective views are the results of our philosophical ideologies (philideos) and the definition of our terms.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“All you know is what I told you.'
Philip nodded. 'That's right.'
'So did it occur to you that I might have left something out? That I might only have told you the evidence that supported the case I was trying to make?”
― Simon Lelic, A Thousand Cuts

“¿Qué puede reprochar a Marcela? Con ojos de hombre, piensa que la rapaza dio cuanto le pidieron, trajo un hijo, y allí está, pasiva y silenciosa, quemando sus años jóvenes, sin ambiciones ni exigencias.”
― Elena Quiroga, Viento del Norte