#conclusion

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#conclusion-before-evidence #confessions-of-the-darwinists #conjecture #darwin #darwinism

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. ↗

— Brian Roberts

#cable #call #compete #conclusion #could

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. ↗

— Helen Keller

#conclusions #like #must #people #pleasant

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#atomic #been #chemical #conclusions #could

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#also #arrive #conclusions #how #i

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#average #conclusion #data #differences #disappear

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#experience #life #experience

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly." [Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013] ↗

— Colm Tóibín

#craft #novels #writing #writing-craft

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. ↗

— John Barton

#conclusions #draw #experiment #own #poem