Quotes About Demonstration

And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.

operation of the senses, everyone can furnish as many examples as he likes

There is no incompleteness in the kingdom of God on God's side of the equation. Christ work is finished and it is perfect. Christ demonstrates repeatedly that the kingdom present in this age is completely adequate to heal all who come to Him in child-like faith.

After all, Father, to understand their demonstration one doesn't have to be very intelligent: it's enough to have suffered.

Ron Paul states that if we are want to maintain what liberty we have left in our republic, millions, need to start taking to the streets in Peaceful protests. Dr. Paul believes in Resistance without violence.

So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really were?

How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really were?

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

And everyone knows that it's better to have an expert show you -- and not just tell you -- how to play tennis or golf or a musical instrument. We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instructions.

You have to explain the invention to customers — not once or twice but three or four times, with a different twist each time. You have to show them exactly how it works and why it works, and make them follow your hands as you chop liver with it, and then tell them precisely how it fits into their routine, and, finally, sell them on the paradoxical fact that, revolutionary as the gadget is, it's not at all hard to use.

Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better. -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

What passes for art today is for the most part a demonstration of itself, for it is a fallacy to suppose that method can become the meaning and aim of art. Nonetheless, most modern artists spend their time self-indulgently demonstrating method.

All the picketers look bored and hot and like they

APODICTICAL  (APODI'CTICAL)   adj.[from    evident truth; demonstration.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction. Holding an apodictical knowledge, and an assured knowledge of it; verily, to persuade their apprehensions otherwise, were to make Euclid believe, that there were more than one centre in

First then, I lay down for a principle, that nobody at an University is to be taught the practice of any rule without the true and solid reason and demonstration of the same. Rules without demonstration must and ought to be taught to seamen, artisans, &c. as I have already said; and schools for such people are fit in seaports and trading towns; but it is far below the dignity of an University, which is designed for solid and true learning, to do this.

A cognitive orphan becomes deprived of straightforwardness and sensibility; it stays unsure, for how and what to demonstrate.

Epictetus, for instance, challenged the idea that we improve solely by reading books and acquiring knowledge. Instead, we should demonstrate that the knowledge has really sunk in: 'A builder does not come and say, "Listen to me talking on the art of building", … but undertakes to build a house and proves by building it that he knows the art.

A man who has been well trained will not in any case look for more accuracy than the nature of the matter allows; for to expect exact demonstration from a rhetorician is as absurd as to accept from a mathematician a statement only probable.

I think I showed my qualities and the way I can play.

I know I am a good goalkeeper, and I've shown that a lot.

Mendel's last forays into botany included the satisfying demonstration that even the greatest living scientists could be wrong. Armed with a fine paintbrush and a microscope, the poor-sighted abbot proved that a single grain of pollen was enough to fertilise an ovum – something that Charles Darwin had insisted was impossible.

My own efforts at peacemaking have been easy - in fact, rather enjoyable: CND marches, demos, protest meetings in Trafalgar and Grosvenor Squares, and visits to the women at Greenham, especially the glorious day in 1983 when thousands of us embraced the base and pinned beautiful pictures and objects to the ugly wire.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.