220 Quotes About Proof
- Author Richard P. Feynman
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A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
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- Author Ethan Nahté
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Your first draft is not a gold nugget. It might be a nugget, but it's not golden.
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- Author Theodore Dalrymple
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Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.
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- Author Jennifer Paynter
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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 this.
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- Author L.B. Ó Ceallaigh
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This is the problem with our story, we have to prove ourselves according to a strict requirement it seems to the outside world, whether it is the extended family or strangers, or even yourselves.
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- Author Michael Card
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There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!
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- Author Ayn Rand
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He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.
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- Author Austin Farrer
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What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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- Author John Locke
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It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.
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