Quotes About Proof

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

The nature of the government's surveillance on me and my family is forensically proven and not subject to legitimate question.

It's almost kind of satisfying when you get direct proof that someone stole your bit. It makes the times you had the paranoid suspicion feel less crazy.

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.

We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

I think one of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father's loving care for us is that we often find in this life the things which gave us great happiness below.

And as for proof—how can a man ever be certain? Certainty, surely, is beyond human grasp. But however that may be, it is usually the case that glory comes to those who act, not to the over cautious and hesitant. Only by great risks can great results be achieved." —Herodotus, The Histories, book seven.

As soon as we believe in something, we search for ways to prove it's true. What we are looking for here is to learn to doubt your limitations and be more certain of what is possible for you.

Testimony should be treated as reliable until proved otherwise. "First, trust the word of others, then doubt if there are good reasons for doing so.

We can only believe what we have evidence enough to prove.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

2. We can't do evidence-based policy without evidence.

the world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.

the greatest mercy fiction gives: proof that the worst the two of them have done to each other is just another tale worth reading together, at the end of the day.

Inga Alder opened my son's feedback-primed mind to a truth I myself never quite grasped: the world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.

world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.

Szilard began explaining. "Five or ten minutes" later, he says, Einstein understood. After only a year of university physics, Szilard had worked out a rigorous mathematical proof that the random motion of thermal equilibrium could be fitted within the framework of the phenomenological theory in its original, classical form, without reference to a limiting atomic model—"and [Einstein] liked this very much.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

Is it because of the party?" she asked. "You think maybe he did drug you? Because I'm sure it was Hayley. If you want, we could try to prove it--break into her place, look for the dope." I stared at Nicole. Her cheeks colored. "What can I say--I'm a closet rebel.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if………………………………… you can prove you don't need it.

The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.' 'Of course it will, Erik.' 'He has never yet been wrong!' 'A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good!

even as it surreptitiously dipped into that dimension for its own hidden judgments, judgments which it forcefully and vehemently made and then flat-out denied making. "Empirical knowledge alone is true knowledge"—and where is the empirical proof for that?