Proof Quotes

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

Bertrand Russell

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.

Willard D. Vandiver

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

There are no facts only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

You are all you will ever have for certain .

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

Voltaire

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

Bertrand Russell

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.

Willard D. Vandiver

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

There are no facts only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

You are all you will ever have for certain .

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

Voltaire

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.

VicDo

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

Jennifer Paynter

This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize into edges, but all Dissolutions of different things, caused by acid liquors, do assume this figure in their Crystallization; these Crystalls consist of points differing both in length and bigness from one another, and this diversity must be attributed to the keener or blunter edges of the different sorts of acids.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Richard Feynman

You do not need to proof your significance

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.

Ayn Rand

Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God.

The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a neutral position of not knowing, we can't move away from it until we have proof or evidence either way.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The devil’s attacks are proof of his powerlessness before us

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs, and Kant rejected Descartes' — but they have supplied new ones of their own. In order to make their proofs seem valid, they have had to falsify logic, to make mathematics mystical, and to pretend that deepseated prejudices were heaven-sent intuitions.

Bertrand Russell

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

James Prescott Joule

In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton ... the other that of James Prescott Joule. ... Thus the honour is done to Manchester's two greatest sons—to Dalton, the founder of modern Chemistry and of the atomic theory, and the laws of chemical-combining proportions; to Joule, the founder of modern physics and the discoverer of the Law of Conservation of Energy.One gave to the world the final proof ... that in every kind of chemical change no loss of matter occurs; the other proved that in all the varied modes of physical change, no loss of energy takes place.

Henry Enfield Roscoe

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Bob Hicok

Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.

Michael Bassey Johnson

For Commander Ripley Jones, it was becoming more and more troublesome. It had been said that nothing is infallible, Antares apparently being the proof. After hastily recalling all crew and leaving Spacedock 7 thirty hours ago, there had been nothing but problems. Breakdowns in the sensors and telemetry, system failures of a wide variety and finally – the Last Straw: a coupling seal in the stardrive engine failed. Fortunately the cut-out worked, or the whole of engineering would’ve disappeared in a flaming ball of anti-matter. Five crewmen were seriously injured as it was. Commander Smith, the Chief Entech, had the offending unit stripped down and under repair. They were currently on conversion drive - which could only propel them at sub-light speeds – and Ripley was currently in an elevator with a very pissed Captain Falconer.

Christina Engela

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Empirical proof doesn't drive progress. Progress is driven by curiosity, something we all have built into us. Empirical proof is a safety net for those uncomfortable with the unknown.

The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive support of the State. It has the ear of rulers and the control of education. Every generation is suborned in its favor. Those who dissent from it are losers, those who oppose it are ostracised; while in the past, for century after century, it has replied to criticism with imprisonment, and to scepticism with the dungeon and the stake. By such means it has induced a general tendency to allow its pretensions without inquiry and its beneficence without proof.

Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

Having regrets is proof of being alive.

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit; rather, every discourse is, in some sense, religious. The playing field has been leveled. Theology is most persistently postmodern when it rejects a lingering correlational false humility and instead speaks unapologetically from the the primacy of Christian revelation and the church's confessional language.

James K.A. Smith

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true”.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The proof of true love for God is in service to others.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

Steven Galloway

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken."My dear man, where's the flaw in [this case]?""There isn't one ... There's nothing wrong about it at all, except that the girl's innocent.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

Carl David Anderson

Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence

Silje Akselberg Iversen

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

Gian-Carlo Rota

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