Quotes About Proof

One time, your heart almost slipped away on a river barge. Your hands seemed to claw the sky. I'm sorry. No one else made anything out of those streaked clouds. The fact that it happened is proof enough for me.

credibility of doctrine is not established until we are persuaded beyond doubt that God is its Author. Thus, the highest proof of Scripture derives in general from the fact that God in person speaks in it.

But truth doesn't count / in law, only proof.

The body swerves in the service of the mind, which is evidence of the mind but not actual proof.

You don't have any claim on the money, and there's no proof I ever saw or touched or spent a dollar of it. You want to take me to court?" "You're in court right now," Parker said.

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength. The fact that you can be an atheist when everything goes well does not prove the truth of atheism. It does not hold up in moments of great crisis." I

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

If they'd had proof of what he'd tried to do, Porfirio wouldn't have lived long enough to die in an explosion.

I prove a theorem and the house expands: the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling, the ceiling floats away with a sigh. As the walls clear themselves of everything but transparency, the scent of carnations leaves with them. I am out in the open and above the windows have hinged into butterflies, sunlight glinting where they've intersected. They are going to some point true and unproven

and massive numbers of assumptions are tested.

The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable—from table tapping to the superiority of their own children—has never been plumbed. Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it—especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.

The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.

In the short run, Orr's law always holds: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove.*

The human mind is ingenious enough to prove or disprove any proposition, to its own satisfaction

If doing the crime is proof of insanity, and sanity is a defense against conviction, then the crime is its exculpation, and no one is responsible for anything.

We can only find room for a few citations and illustrations in proof of this statement.

You never really know. Lately Kevin has been bothering himself with the idea that nothing is certain, nothing can be proven. Not one thing, not in all the world. The sun will rise tomorrow. Prove it. The sun rose this morning. Prove it. The sun is in the sky. Prove it. There's a sun at all. Prove it. The world is like a box of Kleenex, every doubt pulling another along behind it. You can always find a new reason to distrust the facts.

You have death certificates? Death certificates? This is Afghanistan we're talking about. Most people there don't have birth certificates.

Is this narcissism? Solipsism? Idiocy (from the Greek word idios, for self)? Would Turing acknowledge it as a proof of human behavior? Well, perhaps. They drove Turing to suicide too.

What one would hope for in an ideology is clarity and explanatory breadth, and power. We leave the proof of this as an exercise for the reader.