Quotes About Verification

anything that's repeatable is science.

when something is true in life, that truth shows up in many ways.

Don't believe everything you hear today

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

Naturally, that doesn't mean that all the news which now reaches us from all over the world is true. One of the things I also learned was not to believe everything I read in the newspapers.

Never trust an experimental result until it has been confirmed by theory

And the truth shall bear witness of itself. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him.

Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness].

Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

It is only likely frauds that are detected.

It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.