Proof Quotes
1410 quotes by 1028 authors
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Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Eddington
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A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.
— Hendrik Lenstra
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Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a…
— Gerolamo Cardano
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Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the…
— Paul Halmos
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow…
— G. H. Hardy
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Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to…
— Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a…
— Richard Askey
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
— Luc de Clapiers
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The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves…
— Clay Shirky
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Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...
— Lydia Millet
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On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose…
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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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
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If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where…
— George Harrison
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Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the…
— Walther von Brauchitsch
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Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.
— Josh James
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
— Abel Ferrara
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The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn?…
— Francis Pharcellus Church
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I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything about the many…
— Craig Kielburger
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It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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