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Quotes About Verification

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
~ William James
I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
~ Georgette Heyer
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
~ Barbra Streisand
If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
Truth is it's own witness.
~ J. Richard Clarke
All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.
~ Jose Canseco
Too many proofs spoil the truth.
~ Peter Greenaway
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
~ Richard Whately
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
~ William James
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
~ William James
Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
~ Tacitus
just because they say it doesn't make it true. After all, they're lawyers.
~ Michael Connelly
called Hector Villabona and confirmed that
~ Michael Connelly
Algunos analistas de medios de comunicación han advertido que en los informativos de hoy en día no se comprueba nada de nada. Se redacta la noticia y se busca una nueva, afirma un periodista. Otro colega ha opinado, a condición de que no se revele su identidad: Hay que reconocer que era una notición. Si se hubiera comprobado, no habría habido noticia.
~ Michael Crichton
The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.
~ Michael Crichton
Would you just check him? I'm pretty sure he's dead." "How do you know?" "He jumped from the twelfth floor. Would you just check him, make sure he's dead?
~ Michael Crichton
She dropped the matter, and his birthday remained May 28. Armed with the Social Security card, the birth certificate, and the letter from Principal Simpson of the Briarcrest Christian School, they drove the next day to the Department of Motor Vehicles. This time they had Collins in tow. Collins
~ Michael Lewis
In math you always check your work. In medicine, no.
~ Michael Lewis
In so far as a theory cannot be tested by experience—or appears not capable of being so tested—it ought to be revised so that its predictions are restricted to observable magnitudes.
~ Michael Polanyi
The looters are using Google Earth, too. They're coming in with metal detectors and geophysical equipment. Some ask me to confirm sites.
~ Sarah Parcak
There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'
~ Elise Andrew
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
~ Nate Silver
Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism.
~ Miranda Devine