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Quotes About Verification

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself
~ Edwin Land
The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them once.
~ Unknown
The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.
~ James Nathan Miller
Just because you find a thought somewhere with somebody's name written after it doesn't mean they really said it.
~ Unknown
Sooner or later, all conspiracy theories, no matter how outlandish, must eventually rest a certain set of facts. And facts can be checked.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
~ Virgil
The problem with quotes on the Internet is that people immediately believe in their authenticity.
~ Vladimir Lenin
In God we trust; all others bring data.
~ W. Edwards Deming
In God we trust; all others must bring data.
~ W. Edwards Deming
In God we trust. All others [must] have data.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
~ Donald Knuth
Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
~ Arthur Eddington
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
~ Arthur Eddington
In the course of the argument Socrates remarks that the controversial nature of morals and religion arises out of the difficulty of verifying them.
~ Plato
Pics or it didn't happen. Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.
~ Rachel Caine
Ce qu'on n'a jamais mis en question n'a point été prouvé.
~ Denis Diderot
I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.
~ Jake Tapper
her. "But I may ask you to let me check it occasionally
~ Iris Johansen
When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.
~ Dale Renton
Dallas Winston: Are you a real red head? Are you real? How can I find out if this is your real red hair? If this is the same red hair you have on your, uh, your, your, these eyebrows.
~ Unknown
Jesus supposedly lived sometime between 4 B.C.E. and 30 C.E., but there is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, not during his entire lifetime.
~ Dan Barker
To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
My actual biggest claim to fame is that - basically, this sounds awful and really pretentious - but my Twitter is verified. And if you're already verified on Twitter, then your Vine is automatically verified.
~ Miles Heizer