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...

The atom can’t be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can’t ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical...

The proof was overwhelming. This was the only professional and ethical thing to do.

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80’s. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch’s postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. …...

Critical Oracle vulnerabilities are being discovered and disclosed at an increasing rate, and exploit tools and proof-of-concept code are appearing more regularly on the Internet.

The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the existence of that thing.[Voltaire’s response to Pascal’s Wager]

Don’t you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don’t you ever want proof?

The proof of the pudding is that the Ford Explorer has seen virtually no decline in August.

In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton … the other that of James Prescott Joule. … Thus...

God could easily at any moment prove he existed beyond doubt with some amazing show of power which would have everyone kneel to him in awe. That is not what he wants. Real belief can’t...

It’s still a cautious period for small cap investors, … The companies that work best have bullet-proof earnings.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

The proof is in the pudding,

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.

Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there’s intelligent life on other planets) or downright unreasonable (fairies exist).There’s a scale of reasonableness, if...

Ah, but it is an interesting thing, that these things can so seldom be proved. If I were to perform some piece of, hrmf, magic for you, here in this room, you would claim a...

Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn’t exist?...

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

Art is the only proof we have that we told the truth.

The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.

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

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.

If there is no picture, there is no proof.

The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof. To know something for certain there must be proof. To hold to a...

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Proof’ is the hallmark of religion.

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in...

Let’s be romantic and dance in the rain. I’ll prove my feelings for you by bringing an umbrella, because I’m a bring my own garden kind of lover.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death, nor in anything similar to the Christian heaven and hell; but our story...

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