Quotes About Verification

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

I consider myself to be a relatively sceptical person. I like to see evidence for myself, and try to avoid speculating beyond available evidence. But I also have to accept some things on trust.

As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

We open a book, we turn a newspaper page, we allow the television and the radio to come into our homes. All the things we are told every day - are the true?

3. IS THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?

I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask—the fish?

I feel kind of bad for him," I said. "All he wants is to be left alone. I wish we could help him somehow." I sighed. "But we do have to check out his story." "I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask--the fish?

If any girl gets a message from someone claiming to be me, it's fake.

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.

I actually got online and went to check my e-mail, and I always look at the top news, and I saw my name and I thought, 'There's got to be another Michelle McCool,' or 'This is a mistake,' or something!

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.

Never trust quotes you find on the internet.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

people share a very similar vision of the world and treat its conclusions as axioms rather than as hypotheses that need to be checked against facts.

But what are facts, really, except things we've already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.

Die auf der Autozulassung angegebene Adresse ist falsch." "Ernsthaft? Das haben sie so schnell herausgefunden?" "Nee. Hab eine Stecknadel in die Luft geworfen und geschaut, wo sie auf der Karte landet.

Seto Kaiba [to Ishizu]: How do I know you didn't just make this slab a few days ago?! There's no proof it's 3,000 years old! Even carbon dating doesn't work perfectly on rocks!

he presented me with a mathematical conundrum," he said. "It's a famous one, the P = NP problem. Basically, it asks whether it's more difficult to think of the solution to a problem yourself or to ascertain if someone else's answer to the same problem is correct.

Suspicion aint' proof.

The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.