Quotes About Proof

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

I believe that the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Faith is clearly not enough for many people. They crave hard evidence, scientific proof. They long for the scientific seal of approval, but are unwilling to put up with the rigorous standards of evidence that impart credibility to that seal. What a relief it would be: doubt reliably abolished! Then the irksome burden of looking after ourselves would be lifted. We're worried - and for good reason - about what it means for the human future if we have only ourselves to rely upon.

Una de las lecciones más tristes de la historia es ésta: si se está sometido a un engaño demasiado tiempo, se tiende a rechazar cualquier prueba de que es un engaño.

La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absences

Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Una señal inequívoca del amor a la verdad —escribía John Locke en 1690—, es no mantener ninguna proposición con mayor seguridad de la que garantizan las pruebas en las que se basa.» En el tema de los ovnis, ¿cuál es la fuerza de las pruebas?

the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There is an established framework in which any scientist can prove another wrong and make sure everyone else knows about it.

La ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

afirmações extraordinárias requerem evidência extraordinária.

Absence Of Evidence Is Not Evidence Of Absence

S e am gum bidh an dearbhadh de gaol siorruidh.' 'Tis time that will be the proof of love everlasting.

As with all truth, there would be those who refused to believe it and would not even look at the proof.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

Angua picked out the bottle and looked at the label. C.M.O.T. Dibbler's Genuine Authentic Soggy Mountain Dew, she read. He's going to die! It says, 'One hundred and fifty per cent proof'! Nah, that's just old Dibbler's advertising, said Nobby. It ain't got no proof . Just circumstantial evidence.

MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF.

Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their mathematics And when you try and mix science and religion you get bad science and bad religion. The two are doing two different things. ... Science can give you a diagnosis of cancer. It can even cure your disease, but it cannot touch your grief and disappointment, nor can it help you to die well.

The men booted them on, cursing such deep animal persistence as was not satisfied by the snuffing of one or ten or thirty, but would, if not moved otherwise, stop and consider each offering on the chance that one might hold some new clarification on the unseen nature of things, some great and final proof of meaning to be divined from the excrement of buffalo.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Many a man thinks he has given proof of wisdom when he says, "There is nothing new under the sun." There is nothing more false. Modern science shows that nothing is stationary, that in society, just as in external nature, a continuous development is discoverable.