Quotes About Validity

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

do not see how natural selection, in itself, can evolve algorithms which could have the kind of conscious judgements of the validity of other algorithms that we seem to have.

An equal-opportunity phenomenon, the World Wide Web doesn't discriminate between sober-minded scholars and delusional crackpots, leaving visitors without a reliable filter to determine what's trustworthy and what's not.

Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.

in real-life situations we often make the opposite error: we assume that a sample or a series of trials is representative of the underlying situation when it is actually far too small to be reliable.

Racial subjectivism holds that a man's inborn racial constitution determines his mental processes, his intellectual outlook, his thought patterns, his feelings, his conclusions—and that these conclusions, however well established, are valid only for members of a given race, who share the same underlying constitution.

I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Random quotes don't constitute an argument.

History is bunk.

By doing certain things certain results will follow. Students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophical validity to any of them.

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

Giving all due respect to the present generation of scientists who have worked hard to give us the most reliable account of nature they can, historians nonetheless find the scientific ideas of other eras intrinsically interesting, often as interesting as those of our own day, and for all we know, they are valid in their own way.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Confirmation Bias, which had been demonstrated time and again in numerous experiments. Once we formed an opinion or took a position, be it in politics, the worthiness of a television show, or global warming, we tended to filter new data, seizing on anything that agreed with our position and dismissing or ignoring anything contrary, no matter how valid. We would cling to our positions, even in the face of what should be incontrovertible evidence against them.

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.

When pages that promote female pleasure are hidden, we understand that our pleasure is invalid,

All motivators are valid if they produce good work, son. And frustration can be a powerful motivator.

Boyd loved an inaccuracy, for example, because an inaccuracy could render everything else you said void. It

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.