Quotes About Proof

Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work.

The fortress was fashioned by my hard work and I paid dearly in constructing it. It had to be hammered into a firm state and I was glad when the blood came. It was proof the walls were hardening. - The Burrow

Science is about truth,

Seibel: There's a Dijkstra quote about how you can't prove by testing that a program is bug-free, you can only prove that you failed to find any bugs with your tests. But it sort of sounds the same way with a proof-you can't prove a program is bug-free with a proof-you can only prove that, as far as you understand your own proof, it hasn't turned up any bugs.

After four thousand years we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.

In fact, in science, the best evidence that a hypothesis is true is often an experiment designed to prove the hypothesis is false, but which fails to do so.

what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?

It would be pointless to deny that some crime in Australia is linked to migrant communities. A factor here is that many migrants come from countries where the government trusts none of its citizens to tell the truth and demands proof for everything. The Australian system, where the authorities generally assume that a citizen is telling the truth, but provides penalties if they are then caught lying, tempts some migrants into illegal acts...

I have discovered a truly marvellous demonstration [of this general theorem] which this margin is too narrow to contain.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Cuius rei demostrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiquitas non caperet. Tengo una prueba verdaderamente maravillosa para esta afirmación, pero el margen es demasiado estrecho para contenerla.

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

Myself, I believe that black theatre continues to evolve, and the success of writers like Bola Agbaje and Rachel De-lahay is proof that fresh voices continue to emerge.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony.

I automatically started thinking about what I'd do if I had to prove I was sane. I'd like to think that just being my normal, essentially sane self would be enough, but I'd probably behave in such an overly polite and helpful and competent manner I'd come across like a mad butler with panic in his eyes.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill

The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was "deceptive conduct of the grossest kind"; the idea of "a psychological profile being admissible as proof of identity in any circumstances [was] redolent with considerable danger." And

Anything that can be proven cannot last.

And the proof of his insanity? His belief that the U.S. government was a repressive conspiracy that muzzled radical opinion. Only an insane person would believe that! The Unabomber had really, really liked Leila.

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

and when is enough proof enough?

Quién se resigna a buscar pruebas de algo no creído por él o cuya prédica no le importa?

Buckley did not believe in God, but he wanted to demonstrate to this non-existent God that mortal man was capable of conceiving a world.

Indeed, it was the conviction of some divines that God created night as proof of hell's existence.