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Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
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 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
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
Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification. -- James Gordon Bennett
So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue. -- Mitchell Reiss
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. -- Ken Thompson
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification. -- Ban Ki-moon
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. -- Thomas Huxley
In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection. -- Shimon Peres
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it. -- O. Henry
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output. -- Heather Brooke
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
The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society. -- Greg Graffin
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
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
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes -- William James
We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable. -- Carly Fiorina
An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants. -- Mitt Romney
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. -- Bill Kovach
The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved, -- Andy Burnham
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. -- Emile M. Cioran
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience -- William James
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
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
Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer. -- Eugene H. Peterson
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
The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification"¦ we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false. -- Moritz Schlick
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
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. -- Kenneth P. Thompson
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

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