Proof Quotes

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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… — Ibn Arabi
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a… — Ulysses S. Grant
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.… — Bob Hawke
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… — Richard P. Feynman
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… — Andrew Revkin
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… — Kjell Magne Bondevik
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… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Gough Whitlam
Beer is proof that God loves us. — Benjamin Franklin
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… — Lord Acton
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… — Washington Irving
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… — Eric Partridge
There was a seminar for advanced students in ZÃ¼rich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain… — George Polya
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein
Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live… — Yukio Mishima
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have… — Charles Churchill
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that… — George Whitefield
The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic… — Eduard Bruckner
Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take… — Indra Nooyi

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