Verification Quotes:

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

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

topic: Needs, Employers, Verification

quote truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes william james Quotes

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

- William James

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

topic: Truth, Names, Process, Verification

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

- Thomas Huxley

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

topic: Faith, Believe, Science, Justification By Faith, Verification

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

- Bill Kovach

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

topic: Verification

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

- Ken Thompson

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

topic: Levels, Scrutiny, Source, Verification

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

topic: Looks, Might, Facts, Refutation, Verification

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

- William James

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

topic: Truth, Names, Ideas, Verification

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

- Mohamed ElBaradei

topic: Used, Conjunctions, Diplomacy, Verification

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

topic: Independent, Data, Nobel, Verification, Vindicated

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

- Mitt Romney

topic: Jobs, Immigration, Illegal, Verification

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

topic: Air, Done, May, Truth Comes Out, Verification

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

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

topic: Science, Direct, Verification

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

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

topic: Teaching, Mean, Simple, Verification

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

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

topic: Order, Measurement, Operations, Verification, True Or False

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

topic: Successful, Cells, Brain, Verification

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

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

topic: Lying, Yield, Secret, Duplication, Cusp

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

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

topic: Adventure, Spirit, Conjecture, Verification

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

topic: Religion, Responsible, Changed, Changed Life, Verification

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

- Emile M. Cioran

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

topic: Years, Long, Twenties, Verification

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

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

topic: Christian, Pain, Past, Verification

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Impact, Phones, Ideas, Verification

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

topic: Ballet, Firsts, Stage, Verification

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

source: Source: screenrant.com

topic: Taken, Two, Steps, Passwords, Verification

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

topic: Art, Fall, Age, Verification

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

topic: Sex, Real, Love Is, Verification, Sex Without Love

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

- James Joseph Sylvester

topic: Exercise, Imagination, Effort, Verification

A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. ... The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others ... The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben's list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.

- Richard M. Weaver

source: "Life Without Prejudice". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "Life without prejudice," pp. 8-9, 1965.

topic: Memories, Class, Support, Verification, Focal Point

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

- Robert W. Floyd

source: "Assigning Meanings to Programs". Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 19, p. 21, 1967.

topic: Definitions, Type, Command, Verification

For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.

- John Kasich

topic: Running, Technology, Heaven, Verification

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

- Albert Bandura

source: Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

topic: Children, Peers, Prestige, Informative, Verification

It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.

- Robert W. Floyd

source: "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (p. 25), 1967.

topic: Loss, Facts, Possibility, Verification

The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things and life.

- Luigi Ghirri

topic: Men, Desire, Trying, Verification

If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a few nations begin actually making operational a verification system we can all depend upon and push to bring all into such a system, we will all benefit.

- Jonathan Granoff

topic: Humanity, Dawn, Benefits, Verification

The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved,

- Andy Burnham

topic: Would Be, Process, Verification

I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right.

- Victoria Tennant

topic: Thinking, House, Secret, Verification

...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is no reliable information about his life or teachings. Most stories about him are as apocryphal as the story that his coffin hangs forever in mid-air "between heaven and earth," like the bodies of ancient sacred kings.

- Barbara G. Walker

topic: Jesus, Kings, Real, Verification

It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

- O. Henry

source: "Heart of the West".

topic: Wind, Horny, Doe, Announcements, Verification

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.

- Donald Cram

topic: Book, Reading, Imagination, Redos, Verification

It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.

- Karl Popper

topic: Science, Thinking, People, Verification

Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.

- Bob Dole

topic: Data, Identity, Immigration, Biometrics, Verification

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Loyalty, Honesty, Variation, Treachery, Exactness

I very firmly believe that we have to make sure that we enforce our borders, that we have an employment verification system, and that those people who have come here illegally do not get an advantage to become permanent residents, they do not get a special pathway.

- Mitt Romney

source: Third G.O.P. Debate, www.nytimes.com. June 5, 2007.

topic: Believe, People, Special, Verification

Mr. Herschel... brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."

- Charles Babbage

source: Charles Babbage's remarks in November 1839, recalling events in 1821; as quoted in Harry Wilmot Buxton and Anthony Hyman "Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Late Charles Babbage", 1988.

topic: Time, Wish, Computer, Discrepancies, Verification

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.

- Italo Calvino

source: "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".

topic: Dream, Believe, Mean, Different Perspective, Perseus

I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

- Greg Graffin

topic: Believe, World, Facts, Humanistic, Faith Based

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

- Greg Graffin

topic: Atheist, Believe, Bills, Naturalism, Naturalist

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.