Quotes About Proof

I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith.

But I do know that the Germans know that we are here," Shaftoe said, "you just told me." "No, no no no no," Benjamin said, "wait until you would know that the Germans knew even if you didn't know from being told by Colonel Chattan over the radio." "Are you fucking with me?" "Orders," Benjamin said, and handed Shaftoe the deciphered message as proof.

If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That's the whole point of math.

we are what meteors, comets, sunspots are to astronomers: monstrous deviations, fell portents of undesired change, proof that something is wrong in a system that was supposedly framed by the hand of God.

Well, it's all math," he says. "If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That's the whole point of math.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

women tend to respond to status and social proof.

A question of proof. That's a good title for a detective story, if you ever write one.

After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

Big mouths can't do anything, you have to prove it in the cage.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

Our scientists have created many theories, many possibilities about the advent of life, none of which have they been able to prove.

Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply cherished grievances.

I happen to know what family you come from, although I know I'm not supposed to know, and I'm certain you can manufacture proof of anything you want." "That's true. I can. But I didn't. -Airiana & Maxim

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

What can be asserted without proof can be dissmissed without proof.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the "evidence" eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.