Quotes About Verification

If a blind man were to ask me "Have you got two hands?" I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don't know why I should trust my eyes. For why shouldn't I test my eyes by looking to find out whether I see my two hands? What is to be tested by what?

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

all the evidence to prove that

The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Or a pigeon, or a rat, or . . . I always double-check the leash.

Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.

Remember your ABC?" he'd ask, so often it got irritating. "Accept nothing. Believe nothing. Check everything," Christina would answer.

Accept nothing. Believe nothing. Check everything,

An 'open story of counting', it must be said that mathematical methodology is a cumulative effort rigorously built atop previous checks.

An animation of real variables proves that the mathematical model is true.

This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.

In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.

Deviants from around the world are trying to 'beat' our system every day. We have to proactively identify suspicious behavior and quarantine users until additional verification steps can be taken.

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it's true and a lot of people don't do independent verification of everything they hear.