Robert P. McCulloch Quotes

I want to prove that he's wrong - he's wearing a t-shirt that says he won the last two fights.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence.

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen.

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Intelligence involves analysis of raw reports, not merely their enumeration or weighing them by the pound. Analysis, in turn, involves finding independent means of corroborating the reports.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.

Proof rather than argument.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

Confronted by an unknowable, historians demand evidence, witnesses, corroboration.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

Proof is the product that you put on the field.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

I try to counter what Donald Trump says that might have an effect on somebody.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"