Quotes About Verification

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

There's no credibility in anonymous sources.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

Twitter has created a certain momentum that is not always fact-based. I worry about that because I still live in a world where you need to have two sources.

We can get closer to the truth by negative instances, not by verification! It

I can find confirmation for just about anything, the

a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing

disconfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth. Yet

Como veíamos antes, los casos de desconfirmación tienen mucha más fuerza para establecer la verdad. Sin embargo, tendemos a no ser conscientes de esta propiedad.

You can test a given rule either directly, by looking at instances where it works, or indirectly, by focusing on where it does not work. As we saw earlier, disconfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth. Yet we tend to not be aware of this property.

Es la misma llamada telefónica, el mismo proceso de computación, el mismo documento legal, el mismo gasto de células cerebrales, el mismo esfuerzo por verificar que la transacción es correcta.

Since one small observation can disprove a statement, while millions can hardly confirm it, disconfirmation is more rigorous than confirmation.

Theories that have not yet been known to be wrong, not falsified yet, but are exposed to be proved wrong. Why is a theory never right? Because we will never know if all the swans are white

In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.

Livermore scientists still insist that they have good reason to trust the computer's more recent predictions. They claim to have experiments that back up the computer code, but it is impossible to tell, from the outside, whether they are telling the truth.

Friends didn't believe me when I told them about him, so I'd invite them over on Saturdays to watch the monkey watch TV.

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

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties...Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

if you don't write it down, then it never happened