Quotes About Confirmation

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

El cerebro humano, una vez que ha adoptado una opinión, selecciona cuidadosamente toda la información que recibe para apoyar y estar de acuerdo con ella. Y aunque haya un mayor número de evidencia y ejemplos que prueben lo contrario, o bien la descuida y la desprecia, o bien la deja de lado y la rechaza para que con esta predeterminación perniciosa, la autoridad de sus primeras conclusiones puedan permanecer invioladas". (Francis Bacon, 1602).

Psychologists have done tests about how humans approach problem solving and found that we are somehow preprogrammed to look for confirmation and not for disconfirmation.

Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.

That was the sort of thing crazy people did—instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.

Since Einstein derived his famous equation, literally millions of experiments have confirmed his revolutionary ideas.

No documents, no person.

Zupe?nie jasne – potwierdzi? kot, zapominaj?c, ?e mia? by? milcz?c? halucynacj?.

Porque el joven era consciente a veces de que el mundo en que vive es un laberinto de valores cuya importancia intuye apenas vagamente y que, por lo tanto, sólo pueden dejar de ser valores aparentes y convertirse en valores reales cuando hayan sido confirmados

En nuestro mundo, en el que hay cada vez más rostros cada vez más parecidos, es difícil para una persona confirmar la originalidad de su yo y convencerse a sí misma de su irrepetible unicidad.

People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

Adam nodded.

it's my baby, too, isn't it?" "Are you double-checking?" "Just confirming." "Yes. It's your baby. It can't be anyone else's. Sorry that I haven't been more promiscuous," she said sarcastically.

The predictions of general relativity have been uniformly confirmed. There is no longer any doubt that Einstein's description of gravity is not only compatible with special relativity, but yields predictions closer to experimental results than those of Newton's theory.

We tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to confirm our prejudices.

There's Frog Jump on my GPS, so it's there. It's a real place.

The discovery of instances which confirm a theory means very little if we have not tried, and failed, to discover refutations. For if we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmation, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favour of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

Believe it when you see it. Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room.

But in a real Christian partnership, one member's guidance is always submitted to the other's for correction and confirmation.

Words, as I'm beginning to appreciate, can make things true.