Quotes About Verification

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell

I understood Einstein's general theory of relativity, which meant that I knew how to demonstrate every essential property of it in a page or less of concise and transparent work. It seemed to me that if you understood a theory, it shouldn't take weeks of calculations on an art pad to check its basic properties.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

You can't believe everything you read.

being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.

But lyrics are not proof; photographs are.

Telling an adult to go see something for themselves always works. They never take your word for it. They always, always, have to go see, and Hungry was no different.

Just because something is typed—whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book—this does not mean that it is true. The

When you see a roadside marker, take in what it tells but also ask, how might this be wrong? One giveaway is the use of qualifying phrases introducing statements of fact, as in: "According to tradition..." or "According to the legislature..." Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated.

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to update its policies on permissible verifying documents.

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

When it came to the war, he believed that the "consent" of the governed had been, in his phrase, "manufactured." Hence, as he wrote, "It is no longer possible…to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify.

Trump suele utilizar para neutralizar a los periodistas, que es la rápida interjección: «Compruebe sus datos, [inserta aquí el nombre del periodista]».

Compruebe sus datos" es lo que yo denomino la "maniobra suprema".

Por qué hacer el esfuerzo de explicar por qué algo no sirve si los demás no han hecho los deberes para comprobar si sirve?»

Google Reverse Image Search es una herramienta de una utilidad sorprendente si quieres indicar una fuente

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.