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Quotes About Falsification

We're constantly correcting, and correcting ourselves, most rigorously, because we recognize at every moment that we did it all wrong (wrote it, thought it, made it all wrong), acted all wrong, how we acted all wrong, that everything to this point in time is a falsification, so we correct this falsification, and then we again correct the correction of this falsification and we correct the result of the correction of a correction andsoforth.
~ Thomas Bernhard
The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.
~ Ken Norris
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
~ George Orwell
disconfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth. Yet
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
George Soros, cuando hace una apuesta financiera, no deja de buscar ejemplos que demuestren que su teoría inicial es falsa. Tal vez sea esto la auténtica confianza en uno mismo: la capacidad de observar el mundo sin necesidad de encontrar signos que halaguen el propio ego.*
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Since one small observation can disprove a statement, while millions can hardly confirm it, disconfirmation is more rigorous than confirmation.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
~ Tillie Olsen
The point about bad money is not that it converges with the worth of the paper it is printed on. It is worse than that. Falsifying the information basis of all prices, it stultifies entrepreneurs, deceives savers, and fosters tyranny. Interest
~ George Gilder
All news was propaganda now; you had to learn the special slant of each station and discount its brand of falsification or suppression.
~ Upton Sinclair
Life, it is true, is a process of decisions and alternatives, the conscious awareness and acceptance of limitations. Experience, nevertheless, to say nothing of history, seems clearly to indicate that it is not possible to banish or to falsify any human need without ourselves undergoing falsification and loss.
~ James Baldwin
All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
As for the theory that these accounts were, perhaps, just stories – confections of creative minds – Gurney's response was scathing. "When we submit the theory of deliberate falsification to the cumulative test…there comes a point where the reason rebels", Gurney wrote.
~ Greg Taylor
Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
~ Shannon L. Alder
XVII. THE PROPAGANDA OF HISTORY How the facts of American history have in the last half century have been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Arpy (suplantación de identidad por falsificación de tabla ARP),
~ Timothy Ferriss
Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification.
~ Timothy Snyder
The timed email bombs of the 2016 presidential campaign were also a powerful form of disinformation. Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification. What is worse, when media followed the email bombs as if they were news, they betrayed their own mission.
~ Timothy Snyder
To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time.
~ Barkha Dutt
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.
~ Karl Popper
At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.
~ Lionel Trilling
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.
~ Michael Polanyi
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~ Unknown
We may see by what happens in our own day how history is falsified at the very moment when events happen.
~ Honore de Balzac