Quotes About Verification

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

I don't believe Wikipedia about anything. I don't go there for anything but keywords.

The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.

And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

Nevertheless, liking and disliking do not constitute proof any more than hearsay does.

He also wanted Gates to make on-site inspections of schools and not rely on secondhand reports.

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.