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Quotes About Proof

To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.
~ Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Provas? Se houvesse, para que a fé? Um Deus que se poderia demonstrar seria um Deus?
~ André Comte-Sponville
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
~ Andrea Dworkin
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.
~ Andrew Hodges
As a child has to prove a sum to be correct, so the proof that we have prayed correctly is the answer. If we ask and don't receive, it is because we have not learned to pray correctly. Let every learner in the school of Christ therefore take the Master's Word in all simplicity: Every one that asks receives.
~ Andrew Murray
humility towards men will be the only sufficient proof that our humility before God is real; that humility has taken up its abode in us; and become our very nature; that we actually, like Christ, have made ourselves of no reputation.
~ Andrew Murray
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence whatsoever.
~ Sam Harris
Hollis I said you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just- What he replied. No This is the real deal. Here I'll prove it. There was a muffled noise followed by some static. Then I heard my mother recite at a distance in her most droll flat tone Yes. It is true. Your brother is in love and in my kitchen.
~ Sarah Dessen
We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart's beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.
~ Sarah Dessen
That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what can only be called happiness.
~ Sarah Vowell
Since the last question, also the first one, the quesiton of death, offers us the interesting alternatives of disintegrating ourselves by our own wills in proof of our freedom, or the acknowledging that we owe a human life to this waking spell of existence, regardless of the void.
~ Saul Bellow Herzog
Nie mo?emy mówi? o autorytecie tam, gdzie nie ma nic, prócz dowodów.
~ Schopenhauer, Arthur
But never being wrong is no proof that the method of testing is sound for all cases
~ Scott Adams
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
~ John Calvin
were we ordered to make a temple of wood and stone to the Spirit, inasmuch as such worship is due to God alone, it would be a clear proof of the Spirit's divinity; how much clearer a proof in that we are not to make a temple to him, but to be ourselves that temple.
~ John Calvin
eLet this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated;16 hence, it is not right to subject it to proof and reasoning.
~ John Calvin
By these words it is plain he does not make love the cause of forgiveness, but the proof of it.
~ John Calvin
You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.
~ John Connolly
Faith is belief based on spiritual conviction instead of proof. You could say that the nature of my convictions has changed recently.
~ John Connolly
She was merely doing what all young girls did, or what those who understood the nature of the balance of power between the sexes generally did. The boy wanted her, but as soon as she gave herself to Bobby unconditionally, she would cede control of the relationship to him. Better to force him to prove his loyalty to her before she surrendered herself fully.
~ John Connolly
If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
~ John D. Barrow
That a [presidential] candidate would do whatever it took to get power is now proof that a candidate is fit for the job—a perfect reversal of the founders' intent.
~ John Dickerson
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
~ John Drinkwater
Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.
~ Mariska Hargitay