Quotes by True Or False 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 true-or-falsemethodknows You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love? Nora Roberts true-or-falsemultiple-choicechoices The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation. Peter Medawar true-or-falseincentivesstrong But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back. Ralph Waldo Emerson true-or-falsetruthpast The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition. Richard Holloway mythtrue-or-falsespeak One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. Robert Collier affirmationtrue-or-falsebelieve Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Robert Green Ingersoll martyrtrue-or-falsesincerity What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s Samuel Johnson please-metrue-or-falselying Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species. Thomas Aquinas true-or-falsedifferencesevil The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. Thomas Huxley true-or-falsewisemen 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 true-or-falsemeasurementorder Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God. William Wilberforce true-or-falsecriminalsguilt«12
