Famous quotes containing the words verified and/or activities:
“To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thingand a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes goodbut to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.”
—William Pepperell Montague (18421910)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bondswe do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-ZeEv, Israeli philosopher. The Vindication of Gossip, Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)