Quotes of: Proofs Keyword

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Jean Chretien

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Stuart Chase

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Traditional

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there.

Living Proof

One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about a proof, its flow becomes clear and it can become an item of astonishing beauty. In addition, the nee...

Foundations of Analysis: The Theory of Limits

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

English

"For example" is not proof.

Yiddish

Speaking French is no proof of intelligence.

Creole

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

Mariska Hargitay

Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.

Michael Specter

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs,...

A History of Western Philosophy

Absence of proof is not proof of absence

The Lost World

Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

French

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Last Argument of Kings

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about this is that a proof, in...

Foundations of Analysis: The Theory of Limits

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

Isaac Mayer Wise

I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

Keith Sweat

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

Junior Seau

If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.

The Gospel According to Peanuts