#statement

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#because #believed #made #should #statement

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#every #gets #minister #mission #prime

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. ↗

— John von Neumann

#although #appear #be careful #careful #computer

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#been #degree #describing #future #historical

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#assumptions #been #describe #embodies #even

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#action #been #brown #bush #cities

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#around #both #brussels #chaotic #concern

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. ↗

— Karl Popper

#does #far #must #reality #scientific