Quotes About Verification

It seems as though a happy dispensation from my scientific guiding star allowed me to discover this error myself. But let younger investigators be warned by this example, as they strive impatiently to publish their results after long years of frustration. Let them test their findings doubly and trebly before they regard any interpretation as certain. For often nature reaches her goal by another path, where man cannot see his way

When the National Institutes of Health makes an announcement through one of its many spokespeople, who checks out the credibility of that statement?

In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

We cannot go into court with merely suspicions; we must get facts.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

It means nothing if I say yes or no. If I say yes, you cannot verify it, if I say no, you are none the wiser. You have no business to believe me. I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

And there the trail ended: with the quotation exposed as a half-remembered story told by a dead man who might or might not have seen it in a newspaper around 1925, and might or might not have recalled it correctly decades later.

Staying unSpun really boils down to following a few principles... When confronted with a claim, keep an open mind, ask questions, cross-check, look for the best information, and then weigh the evidence.

It is important to remember that, as Ken Auletta wrote in his definitive Greed and Glory on Wall Street, "no reporter can with 100 percent accuracy re-create events that occurred some time before. Memories play tricks on participants, the more so when the outcome has become clear. A reporter tries to guard against inaccuracies by checking with a variety of sources, but it is useful for a reader—and an author—to be humbled by this journalistic limitation.

Don't look for footnotes; there aren't any. No bibliography either. You want to fact check it, be my guest. If I found anything that confirmed my point of view, I included it. And if I discovered articles that contradicted my take on things, I simply followed the time-honored journalistic tradition of Fox News: I distorted them out of all proportion, or completely ignored them.

Sometimes you will hear me say right on the air, 'You just cited a poll that is not even part of Real Clear Politics,' which is an average, an aggregate. Yours is seeming to be an outlier. Give me the name of that poll and the date that it was taken. I will say it right on the air.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.

The blockchain is custom-made for decentralizing trust and exchanging assets without central intermediaries. With the decentralization of trust, we will be able to exchange anything we own and challenge existing trusted authorities and custodians that typically held the keys to accessing our assets or verifying their authenticity.

I'm a guy that verifies before he trusts.

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.

Simulation is no substitute for math—it could never provide a proof—but if Peskin's conjecture was false, this approach would save me a lot of time by revealing a counterexample. This sort of evidence is extremely valuable in math. When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true. That gives you the confidence you need to keep searching for a rigorous

Unfortunately, string theory has not yet led to any predictions that can be tested experimentally, and as a result theorists (at least most of us) are keeping an open mind as to whether the theory actually applies to the real world. It is this insistence on verification that we most miss in all the poetic students of nature, from Thales to Plato.

There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In

There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In reading their writings, one continually wants to ask, "How do you know?

there. "The guard at the gate can confirm my story," he said.