Quotes About Verification

To know what is real, one must subject one's ideas to the rigorous, error-correcting mechanism of science, seeking verification that can be expressed mathematically.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Whenever there's a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what's happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it's valid. If you don't do the second part, you're basically a bilge pump.

Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and '80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn't recognize.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

My dad says I was an extra in 'Die Hard.' I think it's true.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

Science is facts.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

No single piece of evidence can "prove" the existence of any historical event.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Father was never willing to pay a bill which he did not know to be correct in all its items.

We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

When we found it you said the number would be either the client, or a source of independent corroboration, or a source of further information.

In dealing with history, he added, all sorts of things are possible, but not all possible things are equally probable.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts