Quotes About Verification

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every

Instead of this, a small number of persons, not more than eight or nine, are introduced as proxies for the whole world, to say they saw it, and all the rest of the world are called upon to believe it.

When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified.

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

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

Note to all men: If you're going to make mention of something that a woman did, like wear cowboy boots, make sure you've got the right woman!

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information will eventually choke us.

Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information

PLACE YOUR HAND ON THE SCANNER AT THE HEAD OF YOUR BUNK AND SPEAK YOUR NAME TWICE.

By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....

Even things that are true can be proved.

When one employs a method of verifying miracles that insists that they be replicable in controlled settings, yet regards as natural and nonmiraculous any event that is so replicable,[121] one has framed the method so as to secure the expected antisupernatural outcome.

Respete los hechos.

People believe what they read until someone prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.

like most British viewers, I don't believe anything until the BBC says it's true).

Lo que interesan son hechos; las palabras que no concuerdan con los hechos no tienen importancia.

The plural of anecdote is data.

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

After consulting census books, cemetery records, city directories, and various other documents, he definitively established that the story the dying Carlson told about her background was true in every detail. She was not Belle Gunness.[