Incontrovertible Quotes

“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, Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice: and the Physiology of Digestion

“The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant in overriding their legalistic forbearance into a necessary frenzy that would allow them to suitably work up a case for one side or the other on how the Law, without the possibility of misinterpretation, states If ABC, then DEF—or for the sake of acknowledging the counterargument first as a courtroom tactic, the case might also be made that the Law states the antithesis of the aforementioned If ABC, then DEF, but gives allowance within reasonable parameters for a provisional XYZ to be granted in exceptional cases. And thus, it was a matter not so much of making one’s case in a clear and logical sense, but one for the lawyers to battle out in the arena of pathos, as it was clearly the emotional pleas that could evoke a sense of sympathy in the courtroom and overturn otherwise painstaking endeavors at using the tools at hand to make pleas based upon incontrovertible facts.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“Non era cosi che si aspettava il loro incontro, il loro incontro dopo cosi tanto tempo. Anche se Alessio, enigmatico, lo era sempre stato. Anche dopo discorsi importanti, dopo i giorni di pioggia, dopo i silenzi. Ci stava parecchio in silenzio. Però pensava mentre lo faceva. Non era un silenzio inutile, era un silenzio in cui ci puoi abitare. Creare, sorridere, respirare correre. Anche quando tutto sembrava muoversi, nella sua testa ogni cosa aveva la sua rotta, ogni cosa quadrava o scivolava via.”
― Francesco Cristofaro, Distanze