Quotes About Proof

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Scars can actually be proof of a healing wound.

This doesn't prove anything. It's just a bunch of letters that anyone could have written on paper. She'll accuse me of buying a Hungarian dictionary

Any belief that cannot be defended by logic, proof or evidence is protected by hurt feelings and if needed expressed by violence.

Asking for physical proof for God's existence is like asking for proof of the existence of energy. Energy is everywhere. We assume its existence because we see its effects. We can understand the sources of energy and the forms it takes. We can devise theories about how energy changes and how energy behaves, but if I wanted to obstinately doubt the existence of energy how could anyone prove its existence?

Once you have a theory, it's not too hard to find evidence to substantiate it, at least until some other theory comes along.

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

The concept of deservingness for one's "sins" implies that certain acts are unquestionably under all conditions "sinful." And this is impossible to prove.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

It is exciting to see the different genres that audiences want to watch. The response to a show like 'Mirzapur' last year and to Delhi Crime earlier this year was so encouraging and a proof that good content is the new formula.

Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.