Quotes About Proof

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I'm not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. There was something in Mendele. There was a fire.

but a mind is blown when something that you always feared but knew to be impossible turns out to be true; when the world turns out to be far vaster, far more marvelous or malevolent than you ever dreamed; when you get proof that everything is connected to everything else, that everything you know is wrong, that you are both the center of the universe and a tiny speck sailing off its nethermost edge.

The only way to prove I didn't do it is to prove who did," I said. "That's the law of innocence.

neutralizer. My job is to neutralize the state's case. Take each piece of evidence or proof and find a way to eliminate it from contention.

But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.

since they made bad headlines. As a result, people thought science was cut and dried, in a way that it never was. Even the most established concepts—like the idea that germs cause disease—were not as thoroughly proven as people believed.