Quotes About Proof

A smoking gun is incontrovertible evidence. And that's what I want: indisputable proof." "There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

No single piece of evidence can "prove" the existence of any historical event.

The burden of proof is now on the doubters.

If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.

How many pessimists end up desiring the things they fear, in order to prove they are right?

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Gödel freely admitted that the intuition of a concept was not proof; he argued that it was the opposite. "We do not analyze intuition to see a proof, but by intuition we see something without a proof." Recently, however, he'd gone beyond that conclusion, too, and asserted that there must then logically be a realm unknowable to our simple senses, where ultimate truth resided.

As you create your story, you create your proof; idea and structure intertwine in a rhetorical relationship

It was not an easy vocation, being a priest in that country, where magic was vibrantly everywhere, maddening and unquenchable, and the gods were assumed to be a kind of super-fairy except that you never saw them nor were offered any concrete proof of what the priests claimed they had done for you.

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

G* No individual mathematician ascertains mathematical truth solely by means of an algorithm that he or she knows to be sound.

It is a famous theorem first proved by the great (Italian-) French mathematician Joseph L. Lagrange in 1770 that every number is, indeed, the sum of four squares.

We need reassurance. We look to art for the proof that life in this world is meaningful and that suffering is not the pointless thing that it so often appears to be, but the necessary part of a larger and redeeming whole.

My foolproof plan might not be proof against this-meaning I was the fool.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

It was an extraordinary transference of power to a private banker and further proof of Teddy Roosevelt's high regard for Morgan.

Another explanation is that while he was persistent, he was also extremely slow; as at school, some people thought him a rather dim-witted dolt who would never rise in the world, and he had to prove himself to naysayers.

who warned Roosevelt not to antagonize the Morgan interests without any proof of major wrongdoing.

Others talked of bribery; of course nothing could be proved.

Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds.

They may never be able to prove it.