“No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.” IfsHumansTestsLogicClaimsProofCertaintyMathematicalUncertaintyReasoningInvestigationOntologyMathematical Proof Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Gov. Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim? And was it U.S. jobs created for United States citizens?” PeopleKnowsStatesJobsUnitedUnited StatesCitizensRepublicanClaimsProofRomney Author:Sarah Palin
“Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.” MenNaturalChristianityDivineBibleClaimsProofReasonableWord Of GodUnreasonable Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.” PeopleGivingShouldIndividualAtheismIntellectualCommitmentArgumentClaimsBurdenPositive AtheismProofTreatedWillingnessDisplayPrivilegedPropositionsCognitiveImmunityGive And TakeEgalitarianismBurden Of Proof Book:Why Atheism? Source: Why Atheism?
“Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.” MayImpossibleProduceClaimsProof Book:The Works of Archimedes Source: The Works of Archimedes
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.” WorldHumansPhilosophyLastsIndividualDifficultHuman BeingsLove IsTasksTestsUltimateClaimsSakeProofPreparation Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.” KnowsBelieveHeartPersonsEnoughSufferingSpeakSilenceLibertyForeverKnowingWeekBrokenMy HeartCreaturesClaimsBoundsProofDo You KnowDividedBelieve In MeAgain And AgainSensibilityRuinedPressing OnMarianne DashwoodKnowing Myself Author:Jane Austen
“Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.” IfsHumansWellsArtFormOffersClaimsPrejudiceAbsolutesDancingIslamMalesAlcoholProofProphetWarningAggressiveRepresentingProhibitionPorkMammalsHuman Form Author:Christopher Hitchens
“So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.” WantDesireClaimsProof Author:Denzel Washington