Quotes About Proof

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Everything is possible through God, and I'm living proof of that.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it.

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

The Christian evangelist falls into a similar trap if he opens up his Bible and says, 'It must be true, it's written here,' – because, of course, the fact that certain assertions are printed in a book does not prove them to be true. He will have to demonstrate that the Bible has that kind of authority, and if he cannot do so, he will have no reason to be annoyed if other people cannot accept what he says.

Guilty until proven innocent - A

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

I regret that I cannot prove that I am a natural blonde.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Sylvie only kept them, I think, because she considered accumulation to be the essence of housekeeping, and because she considered the hoarding of worthless things to be proof of a particularly scrupulous thrift.

In such a dry spell, when advertisers were beginning to question circulation figures, and editors were racking their brains for a strong hate symbol to create interest, the delayed report from Eden came as a summer shower, that might be magnified into a flood. EDEN SILENT quickly became COLONY FEARED LOST and progressed normally to COLONY WIPED OUT. That there was no proof of loss or destruction bothered no one in journalism.

quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

A man was not necessarily guilty of bribery in the eye of the law because bribery had been committed, even though the bribery so committed had been sufficiently proved to deprive him of the seat which he would otherwise have enjoyed.

I don't believe the 'Evening Pulpit' can prove it, — and I'm sure that they can't attempt to prove it without an expense of three or four thousand pounds. That's a game in which nobody wins but the lawyers. I wonder

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Further, the orator should be able to prove opposites, as in logical arguments;

Now the proofs furnished by the speech are of three kinds. The first depends upon the moral character of the speaker, the second upon putting the hearer into a certain frame of mind, the third upon the speech itself, in so far as it proves or seems to prove. [4]