Quotes About Verification

Just because it`s in print doesn`t mean it`s the gospel.

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Many of today's practising theorists seem to be unconcerned that their hypotheses should eventually confront objective, real-world observations.

I argue that most of the moral development of the past several centuries has been the result of secular not religious forces, and that the most important of these that emerged from the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment are science and reason, terms that I use in the broadest sense to mean reasoning through a series of arguments and then confirming that the conclusions are true through empirical verification.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

NEVER go to their home to check it out. If they are a great tenant, you should believe them.

ALWAYS get a minimum of the two most recent bank statements for their checking account. This should show their income as deposits to support their reported income.

You shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet, especially from sites that can be edited by anyone with a working email address.

Albertus Magnus, a thirteenth-century Dominican philosopher who performed experiments on plants, asserted: "Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

A Three pronged test for any belief: Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people? How is it to be applied? Will it benefit the greatest number? from Against Fate

Don't forget to weigh that Posho and beans again when you receive it, you know we don't trust our government

late modernity has tried to squeeze more and more areas of human discourse into the first type of "truth," making a "fact" out of everything and thereby trying to put everything into the kind of box which can be weighed, measured, and verified as if it were an experiment in the hard sciences like chemistry, or even an equation in mathematics. But this attempt has overreached itself, not least in areas like history and sociology.

I could trust a fact but always cross-examined an assertion

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

authority is no guarantee of truth, if authority is not tested.

In tijden van volledige vrijheid neemt onverschilligheid voor de waarheid zo'n hoge vlucht, dat niemand de moeite neemt om een waarheid te bevestigen of weerleggen.

You can't trust the internet.

The function of cryptographic protocols is to minimize the amount of trust required.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

What's a handshake after all, except a socially acceptable way to make sure the other guy doesn't have a knife behind his back

For Du Bois, there was no such thing as an a priori wrong conclusion; there was only a conclusion proven wrong.

The application of the parable is, I think, that if you do not understand a statement, then to discover that it has no verification is an important piece of information about it and makes you understand it better. That is to say, you understand it better; you do not find out that there

Look, Son of Anarchy, I appreciate the nice guy offer, but how do I even know you're legit?

If they had been, explained Falk, they would have had to come up with a falsifiable hypothesis. For instance, if the hypothesis is that all tomatoes are red, you can disprove the hypothesis by finding a yellow tomato. "What I said in my paper," Falk told us, "that [the Hobbit] is not a microcephalic, can be falsified with one specimen from a proven microcephalic whose virtual endocast looks identical. And that is scientific.