Proofs Quotes

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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best… — Stefan Banach
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth… — Roland Barthes
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give… — Giacomo Casanova
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable… — Jons Jacob Berzelius
Taste has no system and no proofs. — Susan Sontag
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. — George Santayana
I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for… — Gerard De Nerval
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them… — James Madison
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if… — Richard P. Feynman
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. — Charles Darwin
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. — Lord Kelvin
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory… — Charles Lane Poor
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… — Pope John Paul II
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
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
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin

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