Quotes About Verification

You can never trust what you read.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

You can't trust the internet.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

I have never seen a proton or electron spinning around it. I have never actually seen a chromosome. I trust that they exist because people who I trust tell me they do.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.

We need proof in our society.

His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.

You think I need to say something to make it real.

They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.:

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Aristóteles podia ter evitado o erro de pensar que as mulheres têm menos dentes do que os homens simplesmente pedindo à Sra. Aristóteles que abrisse a boca enquanto os contava. Não o fez porque estava convencido de que sabia. Pensar que sabemos algo quando na verdade não sabemos é um erro fatal, a que todos somos vulneráveis.

If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

I don't sign every check anymore, but I have my checks, my balances. I like the people I work with very much, but I check on them.