Quotes About Confirmation

Three stages of truth for scientists: (1) It's not true. (2) If it is true, it's not very important. (3) We knew it all along.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me irrita, y todos los días confirmo mi creencia en la inconstancia del carácter humano y en la poca que me inspiran las apariencias de mérito o talento.

and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.

People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

You feel me' - that's straight from me. You can put a stamp on that.

Compruebe sus datos" es lo que yo denomino la "maniobra suprema".

The information we gain that conflicts with our original assessment or conclusion, we conveniently ignore or dismiss, while the information that confirms our original decision makes us increasingly certain that our conclusion was correct.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

The first thing to do,' said Psmith, 'is to ascertain that such a place as Clapham Common really exists. One has heard of it, of course, but has its existence ever been proved? I think not.

If you believe God has told you to do something, ask him to confirm it to you three times: through his word, through circumstances, and through other people who may know nothing of the situation."[20] This precept of three witnesses is not a law, but it is a good rule of thumb in an area where rules of thumb are badly needed.

If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. Even as it promises answers to some of our oldest questions, it poses still others even more fundamental. President Bill Clinton, in a press conference following a discovery known as ALH84001 on August 7, 1996

In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist.

Only of late have the scientific data reached critical mass, confirming what our intuition and the texts told us: these deep changes are external signs of strikingly different brain function.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now.

Her quickened breath was the very affirmation of life.