Quotes About Proof

E contra factos tudo são argumentos.

The "treasure," he declared flatly, did not involve gold or precious stones. On the contrary, it consisted of "incontrovertible proof" that the Crucifixion was a fraud and that Jesus was alive as late as A.D. 45.

You can't prove your conclusions.' This was another indictment levelled against us by interviewers and theological critics – as if we might have been expected to produce a sworn affidavit signed by Jesus himself, duly witnessed and duly notarised. Of course we couldn't 'prove' our conclusions. As we stressed repeatedly in the book itself, we were simply posing an hypothesis.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

evidence and used it to reconstruct

Keep in mind that no matter how successful you were in dancing your animal, that in itself is not proof that you still have its power. You may only be dancing a memory. A successful experience does suggest, however, that you may have at least had such a guardian spirit in the past, if not now. The dancing itself, however, is no proof in itself, one way or another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that there are always men who like to feel a natural superiority which is not dependent on accomplish­ment and does not need to be proved.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at all of talent in the slush pile and plenty of proof, for those who needed it, that the country was full of crazy people armed with typewriters—far more of them even than of crazy people armed with guns.

faith could only be stretched so far before people demanded an element of proof,

That was the real question, and the one that destroyed her credibility in the world of academia. When it came to omnipotent beings living in gated communities in the clouds, people were willing to believe almost anything, but when it came to otherworldly species, they demanded a level of proof that couldn't be demonstrated without producing a body. That

God is about belief and faith. It is not about proving there is a God, for there is no proof. What proof can there be?

Burden of Proof, or, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

As scientists and other logically minded people often point out, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

people might conclude that this was just more proof that you obviously couldn't hold Trump responsible for executing on anything, much less an attack on the U.S. Capitol.)

Scenes unworthy of a modern country', wrote the journalist without realising that they were in fact the proof that France was becoming a modern country, that only an authentically modern country was capable of treating old people purely as rubbish.

If you can be talked into something, you can be talked out of it. But when you experience something for yourself, you can't deny that. It becomes your undisputed truth, and no one can convince you otherwise.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

what you are doing is sort of architectural. You have to have a design in view, in which you design a chapter, or a proof of a theorem, as the case may be. Then you have to put it together out of words or out of symbols as the case may be, but if you don't have a clear architecture in mind then the thing won't end up being any good.