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Quotes About Counterevidence

It wasn't a conventional divorce trial. The king's advisers wouldn't allow that, for fear that Caroline would introduce counterevidence of her husband's adultery, of which there was plenty.
~ Adrian Tinniswood
Yet in spite of the visibility of the counterevidence, and the wisdom you can pick up free of charge from the ancients (or grandmothers), moderns try today to create inventions from situations of comfort, safety, and predictability instead of accepting the notion that "necessity really is the mother of invention.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb