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Quotes About Confirmation

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
~ Enrico Fermi
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
~ Carl Linnaeus
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
~ Ambrose Bierce
F?r? dragoste, ne pierdem capacitatea de a avea o identitate real?; în dragoste exist? o constant? confirmare a sinelui
~ Alain de Botton
this was only a confirmation of the uniqueness that I had managed to find in my girlfriend. I had animated her face with her soul.
~ Alain de Botton
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of actions. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.
~ Alan Bennett
Del resto i libri, come certo saprà, è raro che inducano ad agire. In genere confermano solo quello che, magari inconsapevolmente, si è già deciso di fare. Si ricorre ad un libro per avere conferma delle proprie convinzioni. In altri termini per chiudere un capitolo.
~ Alan Bennett
On cherche dans un livre la confirmation de ses propres convictions.
~ Alan Bennett
Everyone is continuously finding evidence to prove what they want to believe.
~ Alan Cohen
Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
~ Derek Thompson
As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
70 Dijeron entonces todos: ¿Luego tú eres el Hijo de Dios? Les respondió él: Así es, que yo soy como ustedes dicen. 71 Y replicaron ellos: ¿Qué necesitamos ya buscar otros testigos, cuando nosotros mismos lo hemos oído de su propia boca? 23
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.
~ Don Paterson
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
~ Pope John Paul II
In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations that contradict prior beliefs.
~ Jenny Offill
I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Merken Sie sich folgendes: Meldungen, deren Unwahrheit nicht oder erst nach Wochen festgestellt werden kann, sind wahr.
~ Erich Kastner
But Zimmermann surprised him. On Friday, March 2, during a press conference, Zimmermann himself confirmed that he had sent the telegram. "By admitting the truth," Lansing wrote, "he blundered in a most astounding manner for a man engaged in international intrigue. Of course the message itself was a stupid piece of business, but admitting it was far worse.
~ Erik Larson
The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Atunci, stimat? doamn?, cred c? nu mai încape nici o îndoial?, ne-am mai v?zut, iar dumneavoastr? sunteÅ£i chiar soÅ£ia mea.
~ Eugene Ionesco
An elevated methylmalonic acid (MMA) level can be used to confirm a vitamin B12 deficiency; an elevated homocysteine level can be used to confirm folate deficiency.
~ Eugene C. Toy
if nobody can contradict the story, then it's pseudoreal,
~ Andrew Mayne
Vea -dijo el brujo-, tenías razón. - ¿Hmm? - Él es el más hermoso.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski