#evidence

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #evidence #eye #good #i

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#deteriorating #evidence #french #paintings #prehistoric

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#nothing #world

You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#evidence #got #ignoring #like #looking

The plural of anecdote is not data. ↗

— Mark Sageman

#data #evidence #science #scientific-method #science

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

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#brought #caves #derived #discoveries #evidence

One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period. ↗

— Theresa May

#britain #caused #certain #could #demand

Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us. ↗

— Theresa May

#britain #considerably #countries #evidence #extend

We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#already #evidence #experiencing #great #inconsequential