Ann Aguirre Quotes

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

First of all - I only believe what I see.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

Proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Proof is the product that you put on the field.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

I believe in things that have proof.

Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.