Quotes About Proof

I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.

in un paese civile, chi sia accusato di qualcosa non deve provare niente.

God does not have to prove Himself to anyone, but He still does anyway. Through Creation, God has proven over and over again, that He is so great.

But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'.

...we find what he says true, as far as we have experienced, and we can judge no further but by larger experience — for axioms in philosophy are not axioms till they have been proved upon our pulses. We read fine things, but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction.

Children should always be believed until proven otherwise.

The mystic perceives with his heart what the mind knows to be true... but cannot prove

The curious thing about this little forerunner of greatness is that although we are sure that he existed and are intellectually convinced that he had to have certain characteristics, no man has ever seen a shred of physical evidence that he really did exist.

His own condition is overwhelming proof that white people do not live by these standards. Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.

That was acceptable, his father told him: you can always try to solve a problem by proving that no solution exists.

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which cases are built.

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

There is no truth without faith. Nothing is proven except to the heart of one who believes.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.