Quotes About Verification

Trust is a product of test over time.

Karl Popper – that any theory that is incapable of falsification cannot be considered scientific.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

An "orthonymous" (literally, "rightly named") writing is one that really is written by the person who claims to be writing it.

If communities of believers obtained copies of various Christian books in circulation, how did they acquire those copies? Who was doing the copying? And most important for the ultimate subject of our investigation, how can we (or how could they) know that the copies they obtained were accurate, that they hadn't been modified in the process of reproduction?

I checked," the 4th District representative said. "The count hasn't

declarations and clearance documents

the error rate in manual testing is comparable to the bug rate in the code being tested.

La prueba de todo conocimiento es el experimento —dijo—. El experimento es el único juez de la "verdad" científica». La

Beliefs," things we hold to be true but which may not be easily verified.

mitigate and credible and credulous. What this means

As an experimental psychologist I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores. To

The significance test is the detective, not the judge.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Once it was verified, a tiny augmented reality display extended from the front of the headset and then locked into place in front of my left eye, like a monocle. Several paragraphs of text appeared, floating in the air in front of me, superimposed in the center of my vision:

As a linguist suggests: " There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works (" Hello, do you hear me?"), to attract the attention of the interlocutor or to confirm his continued attention (" Are you listening?" or in Shakespearean diction, "Lend me your ears!"— and on the other end of the wire "Um-hum!").

If a journalist comes to you with a great story, one of the first questions you ask is how did you get it. How you got it is relevant to judging its accuracy and preparing yourself for any legal challenge.

There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.

The old question 'Is it in the database?' will be replaced by 'Is it on the blockchain?'

Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.

The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had paused its nuclear weaponization work also reported with high confidence that such work had been going on through 2003. How far did they get? That's an important question, but I fear that the Iranians will never answer it, and we will not insist that they do.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.