Quotes and Sayings About Proof

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
-- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

#Numbers #Reputation #Proof

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
-- Adam Braun

#Proof

Wit is a thing capable of proof.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Proof #Wit #Capable

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
-- Aimee Mann

#Thinking #Proof #Great Writers

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Earth #Spirit #Proof

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
-- Algernon Blackwood

#Reality #Proof #Standards

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
-- Ali Smith

#Book #Argument #Proof

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
-- Alice Walker

#Hard Times #Dancing #Proof

Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.
-- Alistair Begg

#Mercy #Divine #Proof

Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
-- Alois Podhajsky

#Practice #Littles #Proof

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
-- Andrew Wiles

#Greek #Today #Proof

Fermat said he had a proof.
-- Andrew Wiles

#Proof #Said

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Sheep #Want #Proof

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
-- Archibald Thomas Robertson

#Biblical #Inspired #Proof

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
-- Ariana Franklin

#Taken #Ghost #Proof

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
-- Aristotle

#Able #Proof #Teach

All proofs rest on premises.
-- Aristotle

#Proof

Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
-- Aristotle

#Example #Way #Proof

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
-- Arthur Schnitzler

#Liberty #Belief #Proof

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Science #Proof #Certainty

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
-- Atle Selberg

#May #Mathematics #Proof

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
-- Auguste Comte

#Mind #Atheism #Proof

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence
-- B. R. Ambedkar

#Mind #Proof #Existence

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
-- Barry Manilow

#Long #Enough #Proof

The proof that one truly believes is in action.
-- Bayard Rustin

#Believe #Action #Proof

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
-- Ben Bradlee

#Proof

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
-- Ben Hecht

#Atheism #Proof #Existence

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Beer #Want #Proof

Beer is proof that God loves us.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Beer #God Love #Proof

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
-- Bergen Evans

#Essence #Witch #Proof