Proof Quotes

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Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — Douglas Coupland
If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him? — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations. — David Hilbert
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their… — David Auburn
SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS:… — Plato
What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after… — Alice Hoffman
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species… — Stephen Colbert
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science. — Mary Somerville
Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his… — Ernst Mach
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg
Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof. — Carl Edwards
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis de Tocqueville
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we… — Pope Benedict XVI
The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC… — Alan Mulally
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive. — Paul Samuelson
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance… — Michael Atiyah
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when… — Freeman Dyson
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. — Morris Kline
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons… — Robert Hooke
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first… — George Polya

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