Quotes About Proof

The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie's warning about wealth: 'There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

anybody doesn't believe in reality should try to start a dead car on a 10-degree morning:

La générosité universelle est une langue sans mots, une vue sans vision, un corps sans acte, une preuve sans argumentation, c'est une source qui vient de la mer et des mystères de la mer.

And they say: 'None shall enter Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian.' Those are their (vain) desires. Say: 'Produce your proof if ye are truthful.

The observer, that old record keeper, the chronicler of events, made his appearance in that taxi. The hands of my clock turned elastic while I imprinted these feelings in memory. You must remember this. It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory." p 380

I have always been too sensitive, a weeper from a long line of weepers. I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.

This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

have fallen into the tempting trap of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

Learn how to be a policeman, because that cannot be improvised. As regards being pope, you will see later. Anybody can be pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

The fact that there are countless things we will never know, and many that we could not possibly know, does not mean they do not exist—only that we cannot prove it.

One of the greatest achievements of modern science was, that it proved the indestructibility of energy through all the ceaseless transformations which it undergoes in the universe.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

When I think of my child I am seized by the desire to make good all my former powerlessness, to love as I would like to be loved: mercifully, completely, unambiguously. Her experience of this love is for the moment rather shady and unclear. I want to write it down and put it in a drawer for her, like the title deeds to something, so that she will have some proof, some inheritance, should something happen to me before I get a chance to explain it to her.

Democracy is not just about voting but about informed voting. If democracy doesn't have access to reliable sources of information and instead relies on social proof, then there is no way of distinguishing between junk evidence and actual knowledge.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.

My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

I'm walking proof that second chances work. I want to help others get the same opportunities I've been given.

Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.

Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?

I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at the center of our galaxy. And the reason this is interesting is that it gives us an opportunity to prove whether or not these exotic objects really exist.