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Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

— Chris French

We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people…

— Romesh Ranganathan

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

— Dieter Roth

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“At times you may need to do a research about a particular event that has occurred in the past, and you would like to…

— Gjoko Muratovski

“If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the…

— Shawnda Currie

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be…

— Harry S. Truman

“This problem can be illustrated with a mock analogy. Imagine in your golden years you are accused of murdering a child many decades ago…

— Richard C. Carrier

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act…

— Olavo de Carvalho

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did…

— Thucydides

“If there has to be an autopsy of the sordid past, let's blame the parents. Aren't they the primary suspects, anyway? As the eyewitness,…

— Goldberry Long