Brain Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

— Morris Kline

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult…

— Joe Abercrombie

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

— Archimedes

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

— Pearl S. Buck

It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe…

— Ricky Gervais

“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards,…

— Herbert S. Gaskill

“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed…

— Andrew Wiles

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

— George Santayana

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

— Rene Thom

“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and…

— C.S. Lewis