Quotes About Verification

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All military services have long ago learned that the officer who has given an order goes out and sees for himself whether it has been carried out. At the least he sends one of his own aides—he never relies on what he is told by the subordinate to whom the order was given. Not that he distrusts the subordinate; he has learned from experience to distrust communications.

Journalism is just the facts." He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle. "But which facts?" Arthur asked him. "Which facts do we print, Ishmael?

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It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you are skeptical about a scientific claim, then jump up and down on it as hard as you can until you expose a weakness or convince yourself that it is solid.

In journalism," said Lousteau, "everything that is probable is true. That is an axiom.

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

Put your dough into the oven when it is hot: After making sure that it is in fact dough.

Pon la masa en el horno cuando esté caliente; después de asegurarte de que en verdad sea masa.

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

instituted Kester's law on signatures. John Kester taught me that every time I put my name to something, I created a legal document. Consequently, no one should sign anything for me but the most innocuous paper.

My Grand writings now need to be officially recognised and certified.

Maga nije bila kadra vjerovati u imena, morala je stvar dotaknuti prstom i tek bi je tada prihva?ala.

The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.

When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.

Basically you start this process from the bottom up. In other words, you check your balances in sub-ledgers or journals to be sure they are correct.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Billy squinted at me. Why are you letting them go? Because they're real. How do you know? The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

It looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, odds are it's a damn duck.

It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated that we should never believe an observation until it is confirmed by a theory.

At some point when should I believe if the rumors are actually true?

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.