Katherine Paterson

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

American Author

Stephen Hawking

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

English Physicist

Jonah Peretti

It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.

American Businessman

Peter Landesman

Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.

American Director

Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

British Philosopher

Chris Pavone

We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.

American Novelist

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

Iraqi Public Servant

Stephen Colbert

I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those.

American Comedian

Steve Albini

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

American Musician

Ronald Reagan

American President

Use 'verify' when accuracy is crucial and you're checking for correctness.

Accuracy Importance

'Verify' implies a process of cross-checking information against a reliable source.

Cross-Checking Process

Using 'verify' suggests eliminating all doubt about information or a fact.

Beyond Doubt

'Verify' is often used when a factual claim or existence must be confirmed with evidence.

Fact Confirmation

In computing, 'verify' refers to automated checks by software on data validity.

System Checks

In computing, verification is essential to prevent data errors or security breaches.

Prevent Mistakes

Use 'verify' to describe the act of legally confirming the truthfulness of a statement.

Legal Truthfulness

In legal contexts, 'verify' shows a high level of certainty, since it involves an oath.

Swagger in Certainty

 And the engineering report had nothing on the top of it, so it was an extremely difficult document for us. We couldn't verify it because we didn't know who wrote it and knew what it was about. So we were kind of skeptical that maybe it was a competing oil firm just sort of playing the issue up. So under that basis, we put it out and said,

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 assuming everything is true and then we verify it we say oh is it actually true or false I'm going to tag it accordingly so I actually see this as the pink elephant view of the world so when I say pink elephant all of a sudden for a fraction of a second you have pink elephants who are going to be jumping

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 to log in and verify that they've taken their medication. If they don't log in, we text them again. If they don't log in, we text them yet again. If, after three times, they still haven't verified, we notify a team of supporters and that team will call and text them to try to get them back on the wagon.

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 that not even light can escape. Einstein's equations predict the size and shape of this ring, so taking a picture of it wouldn't only be really cool, it would also help to verify that these equations hold in the extreme conditions around the black hole. However, this black hole is so far away from us,

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 These could be people who have little connection to the story, or have an interest in influencing coverage, their anonymity making them unaccountable for the information they provide. Finally, and most importantly, try to verify news before spreading it. While social media has enabled the truth

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 Cryptocurrencies are based on a special field of mathematics called cryptography. Cryptography is the study of how to secure communication, and it's about two really important masking information so it can be hidden in plain sight, and verifying a piece of information's source.

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 And you go through the process like you do every time you call your bank, of giving them your name and your account number, going through the security checks to verify you are who you said you are. Most of us may not know this, but in many large-scale wire transfers,

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 Turn it from that into some answer in a mathematical form. And of course, math is very powerful at doing that. And then finally, turn it back to the real world. Did it answer the question? And also verify it -- crucial step. Now here's the crazy thing right now.

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 it took something as powerful as dna to undo centuries of accepted wisdom it's just nourished the good thing about natural scientific methods is that they can be verified the dna analysis that happens in karis

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 automatically, right in the browser. Despite all this, though, fake videos could do a lot of damage, even before anyone has a chance to verify, so it's very important that we make everyone aware