Sally Hawkins

When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.

English Actress

Daniel Dennett

We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

American Philosopher

Rachel Cusk

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

Canadian Novelist

Anthony Russo

Our experience making 'Pieces,' all it did was confirm our passion for film making to ourselves. We were having the time of our lives, and we were in love with what we were doing.

American Director

Kathleen Edwards

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

Canadian Musician

William Herschel

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

British Scientist

John Ratcliffe

I want to make it very clear, if confirmed as DNI, every whistleblower - past, present and future - will enjoy every protection under the law.

Daisaku Ikeda

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Japanese Writer

Thomas Malthus

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

English Economist

Danny Boyle

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

English Director

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Proof Required

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Last Step

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Spiritual Commitment

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Ritual Importance

 Once attraction is confirmed, your bloodstream is flooded with norepinephrine, activating your fight or flight system. Your heart beats faster, your pupils dilate, and your body releases glucose for additional energy, not because you're in danger but because your body is telling you that something important is happening. To help you focus,

The science of...

 But it turns out that quantum entanglement has been confirmed in real world lab experiments. Two subatomic particles entangled in a superposition state, where if one spins one way then the other must spin the other way, will do just that, even when there's no way for information to pass from one particle to the other

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 She had a hunch that this strange, 1.5 meter long specimen was important but couldn't preserve it in time to be studied and had it taxidermied. When she finally was able to reach J.L.B. Smith, a local fish expert, he was able to confirm, at first site, that the creature was indeed a coelacanth.

The coelacanth: A living...

 in order to ease replication efforts. The peer review process can also be strengthened to more efficiently weed out weak papers prior to publication. And we could temper the pressure to find big results by publishing more papers that fail to confirm the original hypothesis,

Is there a reproducibilit...

 The drive to do things cause they matter. And here's the best part. We already know this. The science confirms what we know in our hearts. So, if we repair this mismatch between science and business, if we bring our motivation, notions of motivation into the 21st century,

The puzzle of motivation...

 and started moving, touching the baby with her nose in the mouth just to check. I think she was checking whether the baby was alright. I mean, the baby was moving or if she was simply dead. And then the driver confirmed it, said that baby's dead.

Disturbing Encounter...

 and Juno's actually confirmed that in the lower part of the atmosphere, one out of 400 molecules is a water molecule. That's a lot of water. Does that mean that there is life in Jupiter's atmosphere? Well, ultimately, we don't know.

Uncovering Jupiter's...

 between its star and Earth, thereby deeming its star's light. Scientists have suspected the existence of worlds outside of our solar system for thousands of years. But the first confirmed existence of an exoplanet

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 When blood tests suggest the possibility of celiac, the diagnosis is confirmed with a biopsy. The most effective treatment is a gluten-free diet, which helps heal intestinal damage and improve symptoms.

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