Proof Quotes - Page 12

• We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.

  Robert Strausz-Hupe

  Religious, Real, Technology

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• Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Death, Dying, Liberty

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• 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 elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.

  J. A. Ratcliffe

  Science, Thinking, Simple

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• No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Progress, Principles

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.39, Verso

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• Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Views, Choices

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• It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

  Seneca the Younger

  Revenge, Men, Hatred

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• The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.

  Louis Evely

  Christian, Easter, Majority

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Theory Of Evolution, Special, Peculiar

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• The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.

  Pope John Paul II

  Encouragement, Worship, Renewal

  Pope John Paul II (1982). “Through the Priestly Ministry, the Gift of Salvation”, Pauline Books & Media

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• Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

  Cyril Burt

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Poor

  Cyril Burt (1922). “Mental And Scholastic Test”

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• The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children

  Gorilla Monsoon

  Children, Wrestling, Three

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• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

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• Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

  Janet Morris

  War, Commitment, Survival

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• Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Smart, People, Smart People

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• Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.

  Ibn Arabi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a black man must die, and another white man sets the date and time without consulting one black person. . . . They sentence you to death because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, with no proof that you had anything at all to do with the crime . . . . Yet six months later they come and unlock your cage and tell you, We, us, white folks all, have decided it's time for you to die, because this is the convenient date and time.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, White Man, People

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• While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

  Bob Hawke

  Leadership, Class, Income

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• For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Different, Use

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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• Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.

  Andrew Revkin

  Summer, Balance, May

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• The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Fighting, Order, Burden Of Proof

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• We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Politics, Standing

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.71, Modern Library

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• Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.

  Gough Whitlam

  Children, Memorable, Hands

  Gough Whitlam's Gurindji Land Ceremony speech, August 16, 1975.

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• Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

  Lord Acton

  Fall, Writing, Learning

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

  Washington Irving

  Writing, Principles, Language

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently.

  Eric Partridge

  Writing, Maturity, Hands

  Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.54, Routledge

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