Quotes About Proof

If there was one remaining purpose to my life, though, this was it: to prove that the truth could always be faced – explained, demystified, accepted.

I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.

You know, in formal logic, an inconsistent set of axioms can be used to prove anything at all. Once you have a single contradiction, A and not A, there's nothing you can't derive from it.

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

I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.

In PM, as Gödel said, "one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.

There must be truths, that is, that cannot be proved—and Gödel could prove it.

Incompleteness was real. It meant that mathematics could never be proved free of self-contradiction.

It is quite simple. He proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father.

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if I'd been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?

Prove it," he said

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

When an incident is reported, HR almost always starts from a place of disbelief. They request evidence and ask for proof. But if HR is investigating a sexual harassment case within the company, it is their duty as HR to protect their employees. That is the sentiment that has to shift.

People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.

You can think somebody's stealing from the cookie jar, but if you don't catch him you don't catch him.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

if the writers of these four books had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury

Instead of this, a small number of persons, not more than eight or nine, are introduced as proxies for the whole world, to say they saw it, and all the rest of the world are called upon to believe it. But it appears that Thomas did not believe the resurrection; and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I; and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.