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Quotes About Proof

You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
~ Isaac Asimov
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates.
~ Isaac Asimov
That's not the proof I want.' 'You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
~ Isaac Asimov
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason — if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.
~ Isaac Asimov
That clown is one of the very few that have seen him. I want him. He may be the proof I need – and I need something – Galaxy knows – to awaken the Foundation. 'It needs awakening?' broke in Bayta with sudden sharpness. 'Against what? And in what role do you act as alarm, that of rebel democrat or of secret police and provocateur?
~ Isaac Asimov
In Chile, the clerk on duty demands that the poor petitioner produce proof that he was born, that he isn't a criminal, that he paid his taxes, that he registered to vote, and that he's still alive, because even if he throws a tantrum to prove that he hasn't died, he is obliged to present a "certificate of survival.
~ Isabel Allende
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
~ Mark Twain
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
~ Bertrand Russell
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
~ Margaret Mead
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
~ Samuel Butler
I'm from Missouri; you must show me.
~ Colonel Willard D. Vandiver
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Facts are stubborn things.
~ George Smollett
The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.
~ Agnes C. Laut
I could prove God statistically.
~ George Gallup
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
~ Paul Valery
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
~ Imre Lakatos
Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.
~ Neon Hitch
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.
~ Isaac Asimov
There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person.
~ Judd Apatow
People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
~ Molly Crabapple
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.
~ Susan Jacoby
You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...
~ Susan Meissner