Quotes about Proof

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

What was the rationale for all this pillaging? Souvenirs. These people needed something to remember themselves by. An odd thing, souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now. You don't really believe you're there, and so you nick the proof, or something you mistake for it.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

The philosopher must argue for sense experience by appealing to sense experience. What choice does he have? If he appeals to something else as his final authority, he is simply being inconsistent. But this is the case with any basic commitment. When we are arguing on behalf of an absolute authority, then our final appeal must be to that authority and to no other. A proof of the primacy of reason must appeal to reason; a proof of the necessity of logic must appeal to logic;

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