Quotes About Verification

and massive numbers of assumptions are tested.

Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Minerva, if I sell a horse, I won't guarantee that it has a leg on each corner; the buyer must count them himself.

Gramp had a heavy hand. 'Never take anybody's word about whether a gun is loaded.

Without debating the usefulness or morality of planned parenthood, it may be verified by observation that any breed which stops its own increase gets crowded out by breeds which expand.

The tenth planet beyond Pluto, in this instance, will be discovered, or won't be discovered, when the space telescope goes into orbit in the near future. The existence of advanced life-forms beyond Earth may not be verified or refuted for a thousand years or longer — or it may be verified tomorrow, if the Space Brothers beloved in UFO lore suddenly land en masse — but at present it remains similarly indeterminate.

In the short run, Orr's law always holds: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove.*

An indeterminate proposition cannot be verified or refuted at the date when we confront it, but there are clear scientific processes by which it can be verified or refuted at some future date.

What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves . . . whether you are living in a Christian reality-tunnel, a Mansonoid reality-tunnel, an Immortalist reality-tunnel, a vegetarian reality-tunnel, a Rationalist reality-tunnel . . .

No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.

knew the rumors about him were true!

How is trust evaluated? By testing it." He

I think most women we go through a stage in relationship, this is men and women where I'm trusting you, but now I got to test it, I have to make sure your the real deal.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

It is the responsibility of all of us to invest time and effort in uncovering our biases and in verifying our sources of information. As noted in earlier chapters, we cannot investigate everything ourselves. But precisely because of that, we need to at least carefully investigate our favorite sources of information—be they a newspaper, a website, a TV network, or a person.

if you want reliable information, pay good money for it.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Why does no one vet the quotations posted on Goodreads?

Everyone nodded. Technically it was correct, as they did know it now.