Quotes About Disproof

In fact, in science, the best evidence that a hypothesis is true is often an experiment designed to prove the hypothesis is false, but which fails to do so.

Elementary, my dear colonel,' she said. 'When every sensible explanation has been disproved, then whatever remains, however silly, must be the truth.

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.

Although scientific method is different from mythology -- its assertions are conditional, self-limited, and subject to disproof —- "science" as a concept may be used in an ideological and a mythological way, evasive of questions and disproofs.

The human mind is ingenious enough to prove or disprove any proposition, to its own satisfaction

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

The vast and destructive influence of Marxist theory is a clear disproof of what it says.

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

when you're working hard on a theorem you should try to prove it by day and disprove it by night.

In his writings, Darwin makes it clear that he cannot state whether or not there is a creator in charge. The idea was impossible to prove or disprove then, and it still is today.

disconfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth. Yet

Since one small observation can disprove a statement, while millions can hardly confirm it, disconfirmation is more rigorous than confirmation.

You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian.

They couldn't invent answers and assume they were true because they hadn't yet disproved them.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Whatever motive a man or a set of men may have for making annexation of property or territory, it is very easy to assert, but much less easy to disprove, that it is necessary for the wants of the country.

Indeed, even with unlimited resources it is nigh on impossible to prove a negative. How