Quotes About Proof

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

If perception is limited to experience and knowledge, what proof do we have of moral judgement?

Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.

One of the problems I face in life is that whenever I tell people that the Gaussian bell curve is not ubiquitous in real life, only in the minds of statisticians, they require me to "prove it"—which is easy to do, as we will see in the next two chapters, yet nobody has managed to prove the opposite

a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing

disconfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth. Yet

that the burden of evidence is on those who disturb natural systems

It is true that 1,000 days cannot prove you right, but one day can prove you to be wrong.

Mother of all harmful mistakes - mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

Siempre es preferible optar por aquellas cosas que funcionan desde hace mucho tiempo, pues es más probable que ya hayan alcanzado su estado ergódico. Y, de todos modos, en el peor de los casos, el problema sería que no sabemos cuánto durarán.* Recordemos que la carga de la prueba recae en quien perturba un sistema complejo y no en la persona que protege el statu quo.

To our great excitement, we had proof after proof that traders had vastly, vastly more sophistication than the formula. And their sophistication preceded the formula by at least a century.

mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence

the burden of proof lies on someone disturbing a complex system, not on the person protecting the status quo.

Bientôt ou dans un cycle, ce sera de nouveau son tour de me prouver la qualité de son feu. Je ne lui manquerai pas, elle ne me manquera pas--et tout sera consumé.

As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's why I will lust forever after men. Before I even began to worry about homework or any of those school things, I began having secret liaisons with men. And it is men who give me the proof I need now to feel I'm alive.

The weird thing is, hearing stories like this makes me feel a kind of kinship with the Almighty, because it proves that even God has psychotic episodes.

That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.

When we descend to details we can prove that no one species has changed; nor can we prove that the supposed changes are beneficial, which is the groundwork of the theory.

Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.

In other words, the diagonal of that square is irrational—and nowadays we recognize that number as the square root of two.