Having regrets is proof of being alive.

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was ‘style’ and a result obtained with simple equipment was more...

Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption...

Great answers are found in tough questions. Never give up because of how hard the seed it; it’s a proof that it carries sweeter fruits!

An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more...

No matter how many dams we build we can’t drought-proof California.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn’t.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

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

[He points to booming auto sales as proof that consumers are still buying gas guzzlers even in the face of soaring prices.] They complain about the cost of gasoline, but when GM, Ford and Chrysler...

The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a neutral position of not knowing, we can’t move away from it until we...

There’s a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler...

It is a very high burden of proof that we have to meet.

The understanding of every witness we’ve spoken to is that Proof pulled out a weapon. Proof shot Keith in the face and Keith was unarmed.

Where is the evidence? Where is the proof? We are not going to do this.

[…] provability is a weaker notion than truth

The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4

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

I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic hypothesis sought in vain for hundreds and thousands of years. The...

Since we don’t know the initial reason of life, we can’t say ‘everything happens for a reason’ (i.e. we are created and we don’t know the reason) so it’s fair to say (for our human...

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

You’re first place in my heart. And here’s a second-place ribbon from my third grade shuttle run to prove it. I’ve kept it all these years to remind myself that I’m a winner.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence

We warned that the plans would be unpopular and this is the proof.

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs...

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of ‘proving theorems.’ Is a writer’s job mainly that of ‘writing sentences?

When we got there we were given the TV treatment. They put the shine-proof makeup on us, and during the breaks we would joke around and pretend we were news anchors.

If it wasn’t for Proof trying to harm someone, we wouldn’t be here today.

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

The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don’t have seeds. It’s not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now; harvest awaits you soon!

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey’s judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken.”My dear man, where’s the flaw in [this case]?””There isn’t one … There’s nothing wrong about...

Don’t even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something – an absurd idea, but it persisted – ‘I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to...

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

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

scientifically.

The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive...

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted,...

the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that ‘the miraculous’ was expected, that it was their daily...

I could have made it better this is the proof. If it was good enough to win the award, I thank you.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?

…and when is enough proof enough?

We can file this aggressive motion because we have proof that the spying program is illegal. The bottom line is the defendants have incriminated themselves — President Bush admitted that he authorized and oversaw an...

My political foes could not give any sufficient proof of the accusations and have tried to hide the proof that I am innocent,

This is a proof-of-principle study. It adds the next chapter in the story of lowering cholesterol.