Quotes About Verification

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib.

You can't exactly do it from your hotel room. It's the weather; you've got to get out in it. You're telling people that there are 70 mile-per-hour winds. So it's like, 'Let's prove it.'

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.

Sometimes I get a call from my bank, and the first thing they ask is, 'Mr. Mitnick, may I get your account number?' And I'll say, 'You called me! I'm not giving you my account number!'

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. - Roger Tory Peterson

Existe una diferencia esencial entre «tener ideas» y «someter estas ideas a prueba». Lo característico de los filósofos es comprobar las ideas, averiguar si poseen alguna coherencia y solidez o si encierran algún tipo de vicio de forma, o algún error que las haga inviables.

We must always deal from strength and insist on verification of every agreement. In my meetings with the General Secretary I repeated several times a Russian proverb—"doveryai no proveryai"—"trust but verify."

The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given

2.223 In order to discover whether the picture is true or false we must compare it with reality. 2.224 It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false. 2.225 There is no picture which is a priori true.

That I am a man and not a woman can be verified, but if I were to say I was a woman, and then tried to explain the error by saying I hadn't checked the statement, the explanation would not be accepted.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Everything that can be tested must be tested

The point is that his authority would be derived in the only way that such authority ever is—by making claims about the world that can be corroborated by further observation

We should not, therefore, be afraid of testing others--or of being tested ourselves. It is only by testing, or being tested, that we understand whether the substance or the person is as it appears to be or is merely masquerading.

Nie mo?emy mówi? o autorytecie tam, gdzie nie ma nic, prócz dowodów.

La coherencia es el mejor marcador de la verdad del que disponemos, por imperfecto que sea.