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Quotes About Verification

The marriage license itself is lost, but a separate document, the marriage bond, survives. On it Anne Hathaway is correctly identified. Shakespeare's name is rendered as "Shagspere"—the first of many arrestingly variable renderings.
~ Bill Bryson
I know we're not the first to discover this,' Gene Cernan radioed back from about 29,000 kilometres, 'but we'd like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round.
~ Bill Bryson
But how do we know it's really you? I mean, I could put a saucepan on my head and call myself the God of Boiled Dumplings; wouldn't mean I was telling the truth.
~ K.J. Parker
It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.
~ Jake Tapper
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
~ Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.
~ Francis Bacon
All approaches at a higher level are suspect until confirmed at the molecular level.
~ Francis Crick
It's helpful to keep in mind Alberto Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle or what's sometimes known as Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
~ Brene Brown
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Theory is the best guide for experiment—that were it not for theory and the problems and hypotheses that come out of it, we would not know the points we wanted to verify, and hence would experiment aimlessly
~ Henry Hazlitt
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
~ David Gross
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.
~ Michael Specter
It's important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.
~ Rithvik Dhanjani
I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.
~ Michael Shermer
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
~ Steve Albini
carefully check my receipts before I leave the store. In the last six trips, I've found errors on four occasions. This meant that I received the mischarged item for
~ Steve Economides
3. Be careful of Web research. Be wary of what you find on the Web. After all, it was Abraham Lincoln who said, "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they were genuine.
~ Steven D. Stark
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
~ Tryon Edwards
Arizona governor Jan Brewer summed up what must be done: The administration's refusal to properly verify that violent criminals are not among those entering the United States shows an alarming lack of concern for our homeland's security. As a nation, we cannot sit back and allow this policy to continue.16
~ Michael Savage
No ID, no person
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
You were right, said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
No documents, no person.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Cum putea s? È™tie? Cum putea s? verifice? În orele de fizic?, orice elev poate s? fac? experienÈ›e spre a verifica exactitatea unei ipoteze È™tiinÈ›ifice. Omul îns?, pentru faptul c? dispune doar de o singur? via??, nu are nicio posibilitate s? verifice ipoteza prin experien??, drept care nu va afla niciodat? dac? a greÈ™it sau dac? a f?cut bine dând ascultare sentimentelor sale.
~ Milan Kundera