Quotes and Sayings about Validity

 

 

"In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music."
- David Baker
(Related: Music, Ego, Validity)

"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Art, Performance, Difference, Theater, Validity)

"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature."
- Wilhelm Dilthey
(Related: Experience, Nature, Science, Consciousness, Validity)

"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Experience, Validity)

"The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases."
- Werner Heisenberg
(Related: Difficulty, Solution, Validity)

"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression."
- Joseph Jarman
(Related: Society, Expression, Illusion, Validity)

"The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group."
- Lawrence Kohlberg
(Related: Values, Authority, Effort, Principles, Validity)

"Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity."
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
(Related: Men, Truth, Hinduism, Quest, Validity)

"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."
- Fernand Leger
(Related: Truth, Painting, Understanding, Validity)

"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Validity, Writing)

"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer."
- James Newman
(Related: Mathematics, Questions, Talking, Validity)

"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity."
- Camille Paglia
(Related: History, Beauty, Men, Change, Greatness, Meaning, Nobility, Order, Validity)

"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."
- J. Philippe Rushton
(Related: Race, Validity)

"There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff."
- Frank Shorter
(Related: People, Validity)

"It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far."
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
(Related: Spring, Theory, Validity)

"So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Strategy, Company, Connection, Integrity, Service, Validity)

"Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed."
- Paul Tsongas
(Related: Government, Idea, Democracy, Fathers, Founding, Validity, Years)

"Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?"
- William H. Wharton
(Related: Nature, Perseverance, Land, State, Validity)

"I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows."
- Chely Wright
(Related: Validity)

"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Music, Validity)