Verification Quotes

• Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

  William James

  Truth, Names, Process

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

  Thomas Huxley

  Faith, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

  Bill Kovach

  Art, Discipline, Fiction

  Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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• No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

  Ken Thompson

  Levels, Scrutiny, Source

  "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Communications of the ACM 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.

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• A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Looks, Might, Facts

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

  William James

  Truth, Names, Ideas

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Used, Conjunctions, Diplomacy

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• Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Independent, Data, Nobel

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• An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Immigration, Illegal

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• Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Air, Done, May

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• Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Science, Scientific Method, Accounts

  Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.24, Routledge

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• If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teaching, Mean, Simple

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Order, True Or False, Measurement

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell and implant a fixed pattern in the brain. Consequently, guided public opinion is the result, according to Pavlovian theoreticians, of good propaganda technique, and the polls [are] a verification of the temporary successful action of the Pavlovian machinations on the mind.

  Joost Meerloo

  Successful, Cells, Brain

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• We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Lying, Yield, Secret

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

  John Pringle Nichol

  Adventure, Science, Spirit

  John Pringle Nichol (1848). “The planet Neptune: an exposition and history”, p.90

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• The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Religion, Responsible, Changed

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• What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Years, Long, Twenties

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Christian, Pain, Past

  "Robert Elsmere", Chapter XXVII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45, 1922.

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• I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard. Why would you want a camera on your phone? But as we see the impact of it, it has allowed for a mass verification of what black people have been saying.

  Arthur Jafa

  Impact, Phones, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.

  Carly Fiorina

  Needs, Employers

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

  Misty Copeland

  Ballet, Firsts, Stage

  Source: collider.com

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• I changed all my passwords. I have no any two passwords that are the same for any service online. I have two-step verification enabled on all my devices...so yeah, I did take some extra steps that I hadn't taken before being exposed to this world.

  Zachary Quinto

  Taken, Two, Steps

  Source: screenrant.com

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• A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Fall, Age

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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