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Quotes About Proof

It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.
~ Keith Donohue
was customary to take the brightest from a captive nation and teach them the native Babylonian language. Three years also gave enough time to prove they were not carrying any disease. Daniel
~ Ken Johnson
We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
The truth is in the pudding.
~ Célestine Hitiura Vaite
We cannot be resolved of any doubt save by experiment
~ C.G. Jung
Wiedzia?e? i nie powiedzia?e? mi? - Czy uwierzy?aby? mi, gdybym przyszed? do Ciebie, nie przynosz?c dowodów? Musia?em je mie?, skoro Ty, Pani, raz za razem rozstrzyga?a? w?tpliwo?ci na jego korzy??. By? nies?ychanie ostro?ny; samo przej?cie jego korespondencji wymaga?o cudów zr?czno?ci.
~ C.W. Gortner
but as anybody who's ever been involved with the law will tell you, facts aren't always or even usually what decides a case.
~ Caleb Carr
You want me to back off, fine. Prove to me you're not Jo O'Connor and I'll do whatever you say. I'll flap my arms and fly to the moon." "That won't be necessary," I said. "The other side of the room will be just fine." He gave a breathy laugh, the air of it moving across my face, and eased back.
~ Cameron Dokey
Lo malo de quienes se creen en posesión de la verdad es que cuando tienen que demostrarlo no aciertan ni una
~ Camilo Jose Cela
The key innovation of Bitcoin was to combine the idea of blockchain (time stamping) with a consensus mechanism called proof of work
~ Campbell R. Harvey
proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.
~ Camron Wright
I am living proof that dreams come true. I am an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life.
~ Cara Colter
For this reason Archimedes considered that this method merely indicated, but did not prove, that the result is correct.
~ Carl B. Boyer
people who had lawyers just to prove how absolutely not guilty they were. (Of anything.)
~ Genevieve Cogman
My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.
~ Georg Cantor
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
~ George A. Smith
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
~ George Canning
The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.
~ George F. Will
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
~ George Gallup
I do not say that things in themselves possess a quantity, that their reality possesses a degree, their existence a connection of accidents in a substance, etc. This nobody can prove, because such a synthetic connection from mere concepts, without any reference to sensuous intuition on the one side or connection of such intuition in a possible experience on the other, is absolutely impossible.
~ Immanuel Kant
One can today easily demonstrate that there can be no valid derivation of a law of nature from any finite number of facts; but we still keep reading about scientific theories being proved from facts. Why this stubborn resistance to elementary logic?
~ Imre Lakatos
and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
~ Irving Stone
You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
~ Isaac Asimov