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Quotes About Proof

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
~ Jorge Amado
Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.
~ Mother Teresa
Do it and Prove it -Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker
~ Johnny Wowk
Not one doctor, nurse, dietitian, or nutritionist has ever told me to eat and drink organic and I have out walked them all. The proof is in the organic pudding, Lol -Johnny Wowk aka Johnny The Walker
~ Johnny Wowk
Head Start, among the holiest of social programs, has never worked, and each time this unwelcome fact presents itself it is greeted as proof that the program simply requires more money.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is: Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens.
~ Jonathan Gash
Blood transmits a propensity for heart diseases; if it also transmits a propensity for treason, no one has ever been able to prove it.
~ Jonathan Littell
the plural of "anecdote" is "data.
~ Jonathan Rauch
Some ideas actually are false, and at some point the process of checking establishes their falsehood so firmly that to proceed as if they might be true becomes ridiculous. For
~ Jonathan Rauch
Persons who dismiss stories such as those of Keith John Sampson as merely "anecdotal" need to be reminded that the plural of "anecdote" is "data.
~ Jonathan Rauch
As ordeals and duels gave way to confession as a proof of guilt, judicial torture was actually increasing in France.
~ Eric Jager
many atheistic scientists insist there is never any reason to speculate beyond the universe of matter and energy, because there is nothing beyond that. They insist that the universe is all that is. The problem is that they cannot by any means prove this scientifically, so for them to make this claim at all is itself "unscientific." Ironically, in doing so, such scientists are themselves reaching beyond the world of science.
~ Eric Metaxas
Replying two weeks later he states his opinion of Fermat's Last Theorem. "I am very much obliged for your news concerning the Paris prize. But I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
~ Eric Temple Bell
It's a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn't a truism because most policemen think the word 'empirical' is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
There's more to life than just London,' said Nightingale. 'People keep saying that,' I said. 'But I've never actually seen any proof.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Absence of evidence, as any good archeologist will tell you, is not the same as evidence of absence
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Wine is constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
~ Ben Franklin
As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.
~ Deborah Harkness
People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
~ Gillian Flynn
Wear this, don't wear that. Do this chore now and do this chore when you get a chance and by that I mean now. And definitely, definitely, give up the things you love for me, so I will have proof that you love me best
~ Gillian Flynn
Wear this, don't wear that. Do this chore now and do this chore when you get a chance and by that I mean now. And definitely, definitely, give up the things you love for me, so I will have proof that you love me best.
~ Gillian Flynn
Wear this, don't wear that. Do this chore now and do this chore when you get the chance and by that I mean now. And definitely, definitely, give up the things you love for me, so I will have proof that you love me best.
~ Gillian Flynn
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
~ Graham Greene
failure of logic in which absence of evidence, which was one thing, was in fact being treated as evidence of absence – which was quite another.
~ Graham Hancock