Quotes About Proof

The "evidence" for faith, then, seems to leave faith looking even weaker than it would if it stood, alone and unsupported, all by itself. 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.

If one must have faith in order to believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished. The harder work of inquiry, proof, and demonstration is infinitely more rewarding and has confronted us with findings far more miraculous and transcendent than any theology.

Virtuous behavior by a believer is no proof at all of - indeed is not even an argument for - the truth of his belief.

Until it is clearly proved that the Universe was created, we may reasonably suppose that it has endured from all eternity. In a case where two propositions are diametrically opposite, the mind believes that which is less incomprehensible:

the testing of assertions on the anvils of logic and verifiable fact.

Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor expressed by writer Christopher Hitchens. It says that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is not met, then the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it. Hitchens has phrased the razor in writing as What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

If belief in a god has to proceed from the assumption that he exists, belief in revelation has first to proceed from the assumption that a god exists and then to go further to the assumption that he communicates his will to certain men. But both are mere assumptions. Neither is, in the present state of knowledge, at all capable of proof.

All magic can be abused. All power can be abused. The Traitors are proof that a culture that does embrace higher magic doesn't necessarily turn into Sachaka – the Ashaki kind of Sachaka, that is." - Lorkin

Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.

Kitapl?k hem gerçeÄŸin hem de yan?lg?n?n kan?t?d?r.

Bir kez daha birinin, 'Ne yap?yorsun, niçin ölüyorsun?' diye ba??rd???n? iÅŸittim. 'Ä°çimdeki bir gerçek için; onu ancak ölümle kan?tlayabilirim,' diye yan?tlad?.

I concluded that although instruments, whether empirical or conjectural, exist to prove that some object is false, every decision in the matter presupposes the existence of an original, authentic and true, to which the fake is compared. The truly genuine problem thus does not consist of proving something false but in proving that the authentic object is authentic.

If faith healed as Parsifal had insisted he had been proving for thirty years, was it not advisable for men and women to acquire some? It was, the old gentleman insisted, something different from reason; it was something that you proved by experiment. You had faith in peace and you had peace; you had faith in health and you had health.

You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian.

Isabelle sat down beside MacLeish and leaned tiredly against him. "You're a wonder," he said in a hushed voice. "I've been told I don't make smart decisions. This may be proof of that." She shivered, whether from cold or exhaustion, she didn't know. "Dumb but brave," he said with a smile. Isabelle was grateful for the conversation. "That's me.

Any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete; i.e., there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

The focus on the present reality of heaven and hell does not, in some way, raise the question of their existence. Far from it. The present realities of love and hate are proof that heaven and hell are real—so real, in fact, that their ways of life bleed into ours.

Julian said the world was evil and horrible - remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn't

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.

Victories in battles are deceptive triumphs. They place the burden of proof not on the men who won them, but on those who are in charge of the war and must be guided by the assumption that no matter how many battles may be won, the war itself can still be lost. Nobody knew this better than Pyrrhus of Epirus. And nobody should have realized this sooner than Adolf Hitler of the Thousand-Year Reich.

Livet är verkligen inte en saga, och ibland får man synnerligen skoningslösa bevis för hur osagolikt det kan vara (s. 317).

Almost all Employees and franchisees of brokerage firms and even tips giving pseudo experts do not invest or trade a single penny rupee in stock market and this is substantial proof to make people understand how big fraud is stock market

Always keep a track and proof of your shares quantity because you never know when your brokerage house may vanish its number from your portfolio without your notice. Get your share amount audited by CA regularly because of stock brokers cheating nature to its clients