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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

#conclusion-before-evidence #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. ↗

— Sam Tanenhaus

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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. ↗

— Lu Xun

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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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