Mitchell Reiss Quotes

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

I knew my reporting would be validated eventually.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

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.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

We must reinforce argument with results.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.

It is fortunate when disputed theories can be decided by undisputed facts.

Time trieth truth.

Proof rather than argument.