Quotes About Proof

a mathematician could show how a triangle's angles sum to 180 degrees, or any other geometric fact. On the other hand, calculus was based on faith.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Monsters have always been built in this sport. I just don't believe the hype. You've got to show me.

Once a person has made some sort of stable, symbolic connection between two things, the connection will influence his subsequent behavior and will generate its own 'proof.' This is why it is idle and foolish to try to 'refute' religious, political, and similar beliefs with empirical arguments about referents that are symbols to the believer but not to the non-believer.

OlaÄŸanüstü iddialar olaÄŸanüstü kan?tlar? gerektirir," uyar?s?nda bulunmuÅŸ olan Marquis de Laplace'? (s?k s?k "Frans?z Newton" diye adland?r?lan matematikçi ve astronom Pierre-Simon Laplace [1794-1827])

I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.

The poem was called "Goblin Market," and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other Poems. Christina

We must never shed tears That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.

if you don't write it down—" "Then it never happened.

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow in some ways, but you're an idiot.

his solid body, the weight of him, his movement, all so real, all so there. It doesn't matter who he is. There are so many of them. Him. Me. Our movement together. Proof, I think again and again, of being worthwhile. Proof of being loved.

Every self is an argument trying to prove its identity

You should demand extraordinary evidence in order to believe extraordinary claims.

And all the mumbo-jumbo of reincarnation. Man into ox into ape into beetle into eight million four hundred thousand kinds of animate things. Proof? We do not go in for such pedestrian pastimes as proof! That is Western. We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

Draven stood below the gate disrobing. Slowly, and piece by piece, he removed his sword, his surcoat, his mail armor, and then his padded aketon until there was nothing left but the wealth of tawny skin gleaming in the sunlight. Stark naked, he walked toward the gate. Emily bit back her tears as she understood. "You asked me for proof of his feelings, Majesty. You now have it!

The burden of proof definitely lies with those who persist in repeating the rumour, and until they discharge it, we must hold them guilty of slander.

The concept of the computing universe is still just a hypothesis; nothing has been proved. However, I am confident that this idea can help unveil the secrets of nature.

God is not a statistical truth, hence it is just as stupid to try to prove the existence of God as to deny him. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.

Even if you lack social proof, if you have confidence and behave like you have social proof already, you are on the leading path to moving up your perceived value.