Quotes About Proof

Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.

Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie. It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood. But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence. Just once in his whole life he had held in his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of an historical fact.

Ä°nsan, kendi belleÄŸi d???nda hiçbir kay?t olmay?nca en belirgin gerçeÄŸi bile nas?l kan?tlayabilirdi ki?

I never believe anything until I get proof, replied Hemingway. But what I have got is flair! I have heard you say so, meekly responded his subordinate.

This is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not in the least an essential element of verity.

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.

I keep working hard to show people they're wrong.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

You just want to prove people wrong and, over time, people start believing in you.

I had neither proof nor explanation, only that mad inner surety that I suspect is characteristic of all those who hear voices in an empty room, whether those voices be spectral or merely delusional.

Theology is a distinctly rare, a puzzling study, given that its practitioners are happiest when the terms of their discovery fall well short of their projected point; this is where they likely glimpse their proof.

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

That's how science works. We don't "prove" results like we can in mathematics or logic; we simply add to their plausibility by accumulating more and more evidence.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Every time I do it at least proves I can still do it.

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.

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.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer—proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer—proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water. Five