Quotes About Confirmation

Paracelsus declared he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature, confirmed by . . . experiment and by reasoning thereon.

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

Im disappointed that you were exactly what everyone said you were....

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

Yeah," Smalls said. "That's the guy.

Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.

You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.

They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.

No one wants advice--only corroboration.

Lord if this would be the right thing for Joannie and I, that I would see a bald eagle right here as confirmation from you that this will be a good thing for us.

Though now the secretary of defense, Owen Leahy had come up through intelligence, and it showed. His posture suggested that not only would he not comment on the quality of the morning, he would neither confirm nor deny that it was in fact the a.m. There weren't many people who gave off so little to Cooper's eyes.

Possible ID, leather jacket." In his ear, the team confirmed the sighting. On the bench, Luisa set down her salad and put a hand on her purse. Vasquez turned to face the guy, his eyes a question. The man in the leather jacket slipped his hand into his right front pocket.

Our brains tend to reinforce what we already believe.

confirmation bias means we look for and find evidence to support our beliefs. We cherry-pick information that confirms what we already know, while ignoring (consciously and unconsciously) information that challenges our existing beliefs.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

If you don't dissagree with me, how will I know I'm right?

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

Frank nodded at him.

If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?