Quotes About Validity

I prefer fact to fiction.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten it true.

Just because you're offended doesn't mean your right.

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

His followers, who are also typically his disciples, freely accept his leadership because they perceive him to be the possessor of extraordinary qualities or powers; and this "recognition" of his special qualification is seen by Weber as decisive for the validity of charisma.[

One of the first things I learned when I began teaching courses in critical thinking in 1974 was that those of us trained in philosophy needed to supplement our philosophical training with the study of various cognitive, perceptual, and affective biases or illusions. We had a lot to learn from the social scientists if we were to teach our students to think critically. Identifying fallacies, learning to test deductive arguments for validity, and the like would not be enough.

Woe unto the statesman," he said, "who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over!

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.

the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth

Sure, there have always been ideologues on campuses, but the old ideologues were at least expected to argue the validity of their ideas. The new brand are ideologues of feelings, and feelings can't be argued. Despite being a certified left-wing feminist, I just don't believe that experience or identity credentialize you intellectually.

Never to imagine that any of these generalizations we make about gods or men is valid, but to cherish them because they carry in them the fallibility of our own minds.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.