Quotes About Proof

I know what I'm capable of, and I try to go out and prove that.

I don't have a birth certificate.

If you're trying to prove something, you've got a weight on your chest. There's no room for error.

I see the hate, what some people say, but I just prove them wrong at the end of the day because I show everyone what I can do. Some people don't want me to succeed but you just have to take it on the chin.

In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

Our world is eagerly awaiting the posthumous publication of his works, which are rumored to contain an a priori proof of God's existence—a situation which has prompted me to flirt with the idea of a symbolism-heavy play entitled Waiting for Gödel.)

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? But we must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that the churches know more about God than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so. (Sacrifice Post, Lt. Davison)

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

We should always be open-minded, but the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it.

Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.

the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.

The genetic code is universal. I regard this as near-conclusive proof that all organisms are descended from a single common ancestor.

A scientific theorum has not been - cannot be - proved in the way a mathematical theorem is proved.

That you cannot prove God's non-existence is accepted and trivial, if only in the sense that we can never absolutely prove the non-existence of anything. What matters is not whether God is disprovable (he isn't) but whether his existence is probable. That is another matter.

We would not waste time saying so because nobody, so far as I know, worships teapots;fn4 but, if pressed, we would not hesitate to declare our strong belief that there is positively no orbiting teapot. Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot. In practice, we move away from teapot agnosticism towards a-teapotism.

My passion is based on evidence.

O fato de que bules em órbita e fadinhas do dente não podem ter sua inexistência comprovada não é considerado, por nenhuma pessoa racional, o tipo de fato que solucione um debate interessante. Ninguém se sente obrigado a comprovar a inexistência dos milhões de coisas fantásticas que uma imaginação fértil e brincalhona é capaz de sonhar.