Continental Quote by David M. Raup

“The promise of a cost-free escape from history should have made me suspicious. But what ultimately made me question the “rising tide” idea was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to…

— William James

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

— Charlotte Lennox

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy”

— Frank Vetro

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a…

— Bill James

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

— John Brunner

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are…

— Paul Feyerabend

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the…

— William James

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

— Anonymous

Innocent until proven guilty

— Justice Ogali

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick