Quotes About Proof

Riemann conjecture

Still, he reminded himself, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.

Well,' I laughed, 'I certainly don't know God, and frankly I'm inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I've come across.' 'Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.' He

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead…and maybe in the end, works is all that matters.

forms rather than the flame. Andrew Murray said, "When the Spirit does not work in power, it is proof that another spirit has been allowed to take its place.

Because white guilt is a vacuum of moral authority, it makes the moral authority of whites and the legitimacy of American institutions contingent on proving a negative: that they are not racist. The great power of white guilt comes from the fact that it functions by stigma, like racism itself. Whites and American institutions are stigmatized as racist until they prove otherwise.

Deny everything. Admit nothing. Demand proof

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.

She had known that he could be cruel, that he was basically heartless, but she had never had face-to-face proof of the fact before. The voice and the facial expression that she had witnessed during that walk . . . had made him a stranger to her. She had never seen him cold, sneering, sarcastic before. He had behaved as if he hated her. But why? She was the one who had been wronged, hurt almost beyond bearing six years before. Was it conscience that had made him turn upon her with such contempt?

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

He was, of course, a piece of the sky. His eyes said so. This is not a face; this is the other part of knowing something, when there is no proof, but neither is there any way toward disbelief. Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light. Bird was like that. Startling, elegant, alive.

It's one thing to get enough evidence to convince yourself, but it's a whole other matter to produce a demonstration that would be acceptable to a community of scientists

My bias is that it does exist. But I would never say that I know that. Until I prove it.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

There were three questions that no one answered or asked: "What constituted proof?" "What constituted need?" "Essential—to whom?

I had made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man. The kind who never asked you for faith, hope and charity, but offered you facts, proof and profit.