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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, God, Ocean

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• The world is proof that God is a committee.

  Bob Stokes

  God, World, Committees

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• Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

  Walt Whitman

  Wisdom, School, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beer, Alcohol, Growth

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• We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as a wave through the aether can when it meets an atom collect up all its energy from all round and concentrate it on the atom. It is as if when a circular wave on water met an obstacle, the wave were all suddenly to travel round the circle and disappear all round and concentrate its energy on attacking the obstacle. Mechanically of course this is absurd, but mechanics have in this direction been for some time a broken reed.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Circles, Broken

  Henry Moseley's letter to Margery Moseley (February 2, 1913), as quoted in "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist 1887-1915" edited by J. L. Heilbron (p. 201), 1974.

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• Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Doe, Causes

  Claude Bernard, Henry Copley Greene (1957). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Leader

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.

  Ted Nugent

  Baby, Animal, Skins

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• Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Book, Perfect, Mind

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• 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.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Years, Government

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.103

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• The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.

  Sextus Empiricus

  Order, Judgement, Inquiry

  Sextus (Empiricus.) (1993). “Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism”

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• There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

  A. K. Antony

  Flying, India, Borders

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• In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

  Ulrich Beck

  Finals, Analysis, Facts

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• A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Beautiful, Stories, Mathematical

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• Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Mother, People, Perception

  "Living With a True Mother". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 21, 2005.

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• If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Song, Two, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

  Francis Crick

  Ideas, Mutation, Finals

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• It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

  Ray Comfort

  Negative, Way, Building

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

  Roger Corman

  Cameron, Ifs

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• This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.

  Ann Druyan

  Sorry, Home, Thinking

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• 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.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Quality, Negative, Beef

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• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Art, Dollars, Guilty

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• There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

  George Andrews

  Science, Giving, Ramanujan

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• It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the latter I collected many proofs, but I do not publish them ... I would dare to publish my speculations if there were people men like you.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Men, Light

  Letter to Johannes Kepler, 1596.

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• Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

  John William Strutt

  Science, Desire, Delight

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