Quotes About Proof

Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.

It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?" I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying "Prove I can't fly." They'd go: "What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!

In God we trust, everybody else brings data.

quite frequently the crowd is mistaken because they are not acting on the basis of any superior information but are reacting, themselves, to the principle of social proof.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false.

Architecture is a hypothesis, that needs to be proven by implementation and measurement. —Tom Gilb

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false. Those statements that we cannot prove false, after much effort, we deem to be true enough for our purposes.

Ultimately, we can say that mathematics is the discipline of proving provable statements true. Science, in contrast, is the discipline of proving provable statements false.

They are there, before our eyes, for us to see—"Yes, now the statue's nose does look just right." There are no offensive words, no possibility of misinterpretation. No one can argue with a demonstrated proof. As Baltasar Gracián remarks, "The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

No one can argue with a demonstrated proof. As Baltasar Gracián remarks, "The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof that it is worth paying.

The information in the folder did not constitute proof, only data that could or could not bolster the conjectures he had made.

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

The law says innocent until proven guilty, but the truth is, if you see enough pain and death, it's guilty until proven innocent.

He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.