Quotes About Testing

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should - it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don't think of the world as a place with a divinity that shapes our end. What you try to do with film is create, as far as you possibly can, an unfolding present - a theatre in which an outcome happens and is tested.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

In life, some of the things we are afraid of are the same things that are use to test our ability to stand trials

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

On the sim at home, you can change downforce levels, roll bars, springs, ride heights - you can try all these different things.

When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

As a competitor, I always have to test myself on the biggest stages and against the best there is to offer.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

God created men to test the souls of women.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Patricia: What they did was stupid and cruel and why I am going to write the president of the United States telling him that if there is any place in this country where nuclear bomb testing should be allowed, it's Corpus Christi, Texas.

This life is not about our comfort. We have an eternity for that. I really think this is about training and testing. We will have work to do in Heaven, work that is fulfilling and perfect for us. God needs to develop certain skill sets in us before that time. That may be what this life is about.

I have decided that I will test my ability … in the fires of the primaries and not just in the smoke-filled rooms of Miami Beach.