Anyone can prove anything except that anything's worth proving.
("The Undying Thing")
We don't need less kids, just more middle managers...
Ryan FitzpatrickTags: heart proof adage inheritance-cycle algorithm boogers coalescence copulation flarf
I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!
David SedarisTags: art proof museums brueghel
Number three: Stay away from the church. In the battle over science vs. religion, science offers credible evidence for all the serious claims it makes. The church says, 'Oh, it’s right here in this book, see? The one written by people who thought the sun was magic?' I for one would like to see some proof that there is a God. And if you say 'a baby’s smile' I’m going to kick you right in the stomach.
-Stewie
Tags: science atheism magic evidence proof
proofs are no help to believing, especially material proofs. Thomas believed, not because he saw Christ risen, but because he wanted to believe, before he saw.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: proof
I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might as well have been me to first propose this idea, just now.
Dan Garfat-PrattTags: truth philosophy proof socrates gorgias
Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs, and Kant rejected Descartes' — but they have supplied new ones of their own. In order to make their proofs seem valid, they have had to falsify logic, to make mathematics mystical, and to pretend that deepseated prejudices were heaven-sent intuitions.
Bertrand RussellTags: philosophy logic superstition immortality contradiction proof plato proofs
I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic hypothesis sought in vain for hundreds and thousands of years. The isolation and counting of gaseous ions, on the one hand, which have crowned with success the long and brilliant researches of J.J. Thomson, and, on the other, agreement of the Brownian movement with the requirements of the kinetic hypothesis, established by many investigators and most conclusively by J. Perrin, justify the most cautious scientist in now speaking of the experimental proof of the atomic nature of matter, The atomic hypothesis is thus raised to the position of a scientifically well-founded theory, and can claim a place in a text-book intended for use as an introduction to the present state of our knowledge of General Chemistry.
Wilhelm OstwaldTags: nature theory justification evidence proof chemistry hypothesis atoms scientific-theory matter atomic-theory brownian j-j-thomson j-perrin
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis DiderotTags: belief touch evidence proof senses empiricism
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
Denis DiderotTags: world theory proof egg temple topple
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