Quotes About Verification

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.

I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked out first.

ABC I taught you when dealing with the Romans. A: accept nothing; B: believe nobody; C: check everything.

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

It's just . . . it feels like someone's going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID." The

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

to their names, but the car they're driving is registered

The facts have to be determined by empirical evidence, and our thinking has then to conform to the facts, not the facts to our thinking

The problem with information on the Internet is that it is hard to verify its authenticity." —Abraham Lincoln.     ââ'¬Â¢

I hope it will not shock experimental physicists too much if I say that we do not accept their observations unless they are confirmed by theory.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Banking now is like sending a letter: you send it, you don't know if it reached there. Ripple is more like sending an iMessage: you send it, and you immediately know.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.