The Worth of Opinions are Determined by the Facts of Their Foundation
I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts.
William Beaumont, Andrew Combe, Alexis St. Martin, Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion (1838)
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Facts are incontrovertible, and the opinions that grow from them must be evaluated on the interpretation of those facts.
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