A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

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?

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

The proof is in the pudding when they come home. Will we have the data about their health, will we know where they were stationed, what their unit deployments were? I will need that information.

Fermat said he had a proof.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.