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Quotes About Proof

We can't prove anything in science. But the best that scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried.
~ Richard Dawkins
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~ Richard Dawkins
When people say they are atheists they don't mean they can prove that there are no gods. Strictly speaking, it's impossible to prove that something does not exist. We don't positively know there are no gods
~ Richard Dawkins
There is just this dream, this feeling, this urge, this desire. There is seldom any real proof, but the dream lives on.
~ Julia Cameron
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary
~ Julian Barnes
My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet I find it the hardest to begin.
~ Julian Barnes
Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence.
~ Jung Chang
I had never thought that your class would be so useful. Going to such a useless thing, faithfully, year in year out, was, I thought, good proof of woman's unpredictability.
~ K?b? Abe
Descartes's argument turns out to be a reworking of Anselm's Ontological Proof. When we doubt, the limitations and finite nature of the ego are revealed. Yet we could not arrive at the idea of "imperfection" if we did not have a prior conception of "perfection." Like Anselm, Descartes concluded that a perfection that did not exist would be a contradiction in terms.
~ Karen Armstrong
Själva längtan är beviset på att det vi längtar efter finns.
~ Karen Blixen
birth certificate and death certificate, both issued in Cook County, Illinois. Laura's various diplomas, her birth certificate from Rhode Island, her social security card, her driver's license. Andrea Eloise Mitchell's record of live birth dated August 20, 1987. The deed to the Belle Isle house. Immunization records. Marriage license. Divorce decree. Car titles. Insurance cards. Bank statements. Credit card statements.
~ Karin Slaughter
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
~ Karl Lagerfeld
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.
~ Joanna Southcott
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
~ Julian Coolidge
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
~ Elbert Hubbard
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
~ Ernest Renan
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.
~ Mark Kac
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
~ Quentin Crisp
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
~ Carson Daly
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I have another proof that we're going to have food in Heaven! And man did eat angel's food.-Manna! So angels can eat food!
~ David Berg
The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.
~ Edgar Guest