Quotes: Validity

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In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

David Baker

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Fernand Leger

French painter (1881-1956)

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Joseph Jarman

American jazz musician

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

John Mortimer

British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author (1923-2009)

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

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That’s the difference between mere theater and performance art.

Jack Bowman

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

American psychologist

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Milton Friedman

American economist and statistician (1912-2006)

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

American politician (1941-1997)

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

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