Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Who will observe the observers?

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and."

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

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 roadmap.

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

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?