Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
Patti Davis

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
Martha Beck

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
Richard Adams

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Kate Millett

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
Roland Allen

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
Jim Ramstad

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
William Banting

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Isaac Mayer Wise

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
Michael Shermer

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Andrew Wiles

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
Arthur C. Clarke

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Arthur Eddington

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
Delphine de Girardin

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.
Frank Murphy

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

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Aristophanes