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Quotes About Proof

This is what creationists say of evolution, that it's "only" a theory, it hasn't been proved, as though this in itself is grounds for dismissal. This misrepresents the point of formulating a theory, which is to make sense of some body of evidence.
~ Daniel Quinn
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
~ Robert Brault
If you love me as much as you say, show me before someone starts to walk my way.
~ Layla A. Fidel
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
~ Ray Davies
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
~ Isaac Newton
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
~ Martha Beck
The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell.
~ Wendell Berry
The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing it cannot prove, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell.
~ Wendell Berry
I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
~ William Dunham
My ambivalence about the sport we shared appalled him. It was heresy. Surfing, to begin with, was not a "sport." It was a "path." And the more you poured into it, the more you got back from it—he himself was the exuberant proof of that. I
~ William Finnegan
If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
~ William James
Vjeruj da život vrijedi živjeti, a tvoja ?e ti vjera to i dokazati.
~ William James
You told all this to the people in the town," he said. "They said they can't do anything because of no proof.
~ China Mieville
They felt that it was overwhelming evidence for something, that it proved something beyond any reasonable doubt, but they were not sure what.
~ Chris Bachelder
You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.
~ Chris Cleave
Carl Sagan put it best: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
~ Chris Impey
You move on, processing lessons and getting on with your life, and you even manage to avoid breaking hearts, most times. But I'm me, and I'm not one of those guys, and I refuse to be. You love me, but I'm in love with you, and I have been for a while. If you want to get with me, if you real y, real y want to be mine and for me to be yours, you're going to have to prove it.
~ Chris Owen
In a century which attempts to tear the heart out of every mystery, fashion guards its secret well, and is the best possible proof that there is still magic abroad.
~ Christian Dior
I wonder what those stars are meant to represent. They must be proof that you are especially worthy, that you shine a little brighter than everyone else. But if you wake with the blessed in heaven, isn't that enough? Haven't you achieved the most you could've hoped for? The
~ Christina Baker Kline
Indeed, the ancestral proof that Nazis began to require of German citizens would not have been possible without the formalization of genealogy that began in imperial Germany and continued through the Weimar era. Even
~ Christine Kenneally
La hambruna es el primer crimen de masas, y es muy difícil probarlo con certeza.
~ Christophe Bataille
You come without papers because you have been unable to prove that you are useful to anyone, and when you arrive they put you in prison and if you are unable to prove that you have suffered they send you back.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
He looked honored, extraordinarily honored, seeming to care for that which tore his flesh than he did for the flesh itself, embracing the blade as if it were some combination of marvel and disaster, the kind that usually either confers divinity or is a proof of it.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The money you earned is proof of the value you provided. The money you earned is proof of your worth having been recognized.
~ Hendrith Smith