Quotes About Proof

Pero la ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

Arthur Hobhouse is a happening. I've been a happening for sixty five years, or thereabouts, and the time has come now for me to put my life down on paper. For me this will be the birth certificate I never had. It's to prove to me and to anyone else who reads it that at least I was here, that I happened.

Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone.

When I started singing, people said I couldn't sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.

But it's always nice to get some compliments, and when you are in a hard situation, it gives you motivation to come back and to prove what the people are saying.

In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct.

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if I'd been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

A. L. Rowse—who, it must be said, never allowed an absence of certainty to get in the way of a conclusion—in 1973 identified the dark lady as Emilia Bassano, daughter of one of the queen's musicians, and, with a certain thrust of literary jaw, asserted that his conclusions "cannot be impugned, for they are the answer," even though they are unsupported by anything that might reasonably be termed proof.

The best proof of extraterrestrial intelligence is that they haven't contacted us.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

We know that we are not dreaming, but, however unable we may be to prove it rationally, our inability proves nothing but the weakness of our reason, and not the uncertainty of all our knowledge as they maintain.

Just as we talk of poetic beauty, so we should also talk of mathematical beauty and medicinal beauty. But we do not talk like that for the very good reason that we know what the object of mathematics is, namely proof; and what the object of medicine is, namely cure; but we do not know what constitutes the attraction which is the object of poetry.

One must know when it is right to doubt, to affirm, to submit. Anyone who does otherwise does not understand the force of reason. Some men run counter to these three principles, either affirming that everything can be proved, because they know nothing about proof, or doubting everything, because they do not know when to submit, or always submitting, because they do not know when judgment is called for.

And thus, by combining the uncertainty of chance with the force of mathematical proof and by the reconciliation of two apparent opposites, she derives her name from both of them and rightfully assumes the wonderful name of Mathematics of Chance!

Canonical books. The heretics at the beginning of the Church serve to prove the canonical books.

Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.

Brilliant! Thank you! But what I value even more than the shoes themselves is the proof they give of our friendship! I consider the possession of such a friend as you to be one of the greatest happinesses of my Life!

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

To prove that he's real, and that he truly is the Son of God? Don't we already know that beyond all doubt? And sadly, isn't it likely that his Second Coming would create the same controversy and skepticism he faced two thousand years ago?