Quotes About Corroboration

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.

You are the proof of everything

The old scientific idea of episteme-of absoutely certain, demonstrable knowledge-has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever. It may indeed be corroborated, but every corroboration is relative to other statements which, again, are tentative. Only in our subjective experiences of conviction, in our subjective faith, can we be 'absolutely certain'.

We cannot go into court with merely suspicions; we must get facts.

Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.

The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing

If you don't write it down, it never happened. Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

if you don't write it down, then it never happened

but no one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly.

They knew that no one heard, that bloodless people cannot be made to bleed. So they blew what everyone had heard before, they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening, and the people at the tables found it pleasant to shout over this stunning corroboration and the people at the bar, under cover of the noise they could scarcely have lived without, pursued whatever it was they were after.

That the movie star is an "escape" personality indicates one of the irreducible dangers to which the moviegoer is exposed: the danger of surrendering to the corroboration of one's fantasies as they are thrown back from the screen.

Sometimes, you have a hunch and then you find numbers that substantiate that, it makes either the staff or the players say, 'OK, let's fix that.'

The plural of anecdote is data.

see evidence of

all the evidence to prove that

The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen

Everything that you see in 'Unhinged' that's quoted can be verified as documented and corroborated.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

hard evidence

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.