A Neutral Witness

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.

Notes:

Thomas Henry Huxley on when to trust a witness.

Folksonomies: peer review witness

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