Quotes About Verification

This world extends beyond this room, Adele. There are the streets of Vienna and beyond that Europe and beyond that a globe in space in orbit around a star in a universe. But how do I know that for sure? I cannot see the globe spinning on its axis right now as I speak to you. How can I be sure? I can be sure because it's logical; the mathematics is sound and respected by the orbits of the planets. I can verify it's true, not by looking at it, but by thinking about it.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

According to Hansen, a real monitor should allow a compiler to verify that the code is correct and thus help to eliminate programming mistakes. However, Java simply uses something that looks like a monitor, but doesn't provide any of a monitor's benefits. The Java compiler knows almost nothing about synchronization.

If they haven't earned your trust, you have no obligation to offer it. If they "dare" you, remember the "And Stance": "Don't you trust me?" "Actually, I don't know you well enough to be sure, and if you are telling the truth I assume you have no problem offering verification or a guaranty." Rather than simply reacting in kind, focus on your objective and how to move toward it.

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.

The inter- view is about the past—like all other historical sources, it provides us with factual information that can be verified and critically scrutinized—but is of the present...These are living voices, voices that speak with us now

They remembered what John, His forerunner, had said of One among them whom they knew not, and who yet was far greater than himself; and they remarked that his statements, however improbable they might have appeared at the time, had been verified by events, and he himself proved to be a true prophet by Christ's miracles, if not by his own. "John," said they to each other, "did no miracle; but all things that John said of this man were true.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

One is only susceptible to lobbying if they're weak and they trust what an individual tells them without verification.

Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

The franking commission is not there to fact-check.

We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Well, the IG's role is to find facts, not to necessarily make conclusions.

With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

The lesson: Be aware of the incredible power of social media and the dangers of reacting to news that you haven't verified.

Testimony should be treated as reliable until proved otherwise. "First, trust the word of others, then doubt if there are good reasons for doing so.

If you will only ask yourself, "Is what I am being told really true?," it is amazing how much you can find is, or borders on, being false, even in a well-developed field!