Proof Quotes

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—a...

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of ...

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what ...

I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of...

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't eve...

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking a...

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in th...

Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and s...

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it...

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is c...

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber ...

There are no facts only interpretations.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easi...

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived fr...

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by w...

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved d...

...and when is enough proof enough?

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be...

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching...

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to ...

A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions an...

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

A witty saying proves nothing.

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

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

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unab...