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Quotes About Proof

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
~ George Steiner
They clearly see through the whole thing, that we are using this to get exposure, to prove to all and ourselves that we are real, that we like everyone else simply want our lives on tape, proven, feel that what we are doing only becomes real once is has been entered into the record.
~ Dave Eggers
I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.
~ Dave Eggers
to prove to all and ourselves that we are real, that we like everyone else simply want our lives on tape, proven, feel that what we are doing only becomes real once it has been entered into the record.
~ Dave Eggers
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~ David Baldacci
Like most religious mathematicians from Pythagoras to Godel, Bolzano believes that math is the Language of God and that profound metaphysical truths can be derived and proved mathematically.
~ David Foster Wallace
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man.
~ William Lane Craig
Perhaps I'm trying to prove my bravery even now, across the gulf of years and mortality that separates us. Or perhaps when I grasp the bones of the dead, I'm somehow trying to grasp him, the one dead man who remains forever elusive.
~ William M. Bass
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved
~ William Shakespeare
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
~ William Shakespeare
For women fear too much, even as they love, And women's fear and love hold quantity, In neither aught, or in extremity. Now what my love is, proof hath made you know, And as my love is sized, my fear is so: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear. Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
~ William Shakespeare
Having a husband, it seems to me, is a small matter like going to church. Either you trust in something or you do not. If you do not, then there's no benefit in going to church at all, is there? But if you do believe in him, then you've no excuse to be asking for proofs all the time.
~ Winston Graham
Emmi sprach zu Hillegonda vom Tod, um ihr die Nichtigkeit des Lebens zu beweisen, und sie führte sie in die hohen dunklen Kirchen, um ihren Sinn auf die Ewigkeit zu lenken, aber die kleine Hillegonda schauderte vor dem Tod und fror in den Kirchen.
~ Unknown
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
~ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
So then, the virgin birth is not proof of the deity of Jesus, but rather, evidence of the humanity of God.
~ Clarence Jordan
E - não esquecer que a estrutura do átomo não é vista mas sabe-se dela. Sei de muita coisa que não vi. E vós também. Não se pode dar uma prova da existência do que é mais verdadeiro, o jeito é acreditar. Acreditar chorando.
~ Clarice Lispector
all the evidence to prove that
~ Unknown
Often, simply knowing the answer is the largest hurdle to overcome when formulating a proof.
~ Unknown
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
~ Clifford D. Simak
what we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.
~ Hermann Bahr