| The more such hypotheses resist disproof and the more evidence supporting these hypotheses are found, the better these hypotheses will do. |
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| For a moment, it looked as if the company's implosion would be the disgraceful disproof of that. |
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| The endlessly announced death, disproof and fraudulence of psychoanalysis is not merely the sport of bigots. |
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| Now a small man can dig for a proof or a disproof, and any sort of man can syllogize for a confirmation or a refutation. |
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| Surely such claims are not open to disproof, and are therefore in principle unscientific. |
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| In fact I conclude that there appears to be neither a proof nor a disproof of the existence of God. |
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| The longer a scientific theory resists disproof and continues to explain data well, the more certain we are that it is true. |
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| Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless. |
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| There is both the possibility of thinking well, and thinking badly, even when there is no possibility of proof and disproof. |
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| Most objections to same-sex marriage seem to be rooted in religious faith or prejudice and defy proof or disproof. |
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| And even where conclusive proof or disproof is not to be expected, some views may be better supported than others. |
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| These doctrines are not subject to empirical proof or disproof, since they are, in the last analysis, metaphysical, or at least axiological. |
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| No, but it is a relevant fact which was proved, indeed, incapable of disproof. |
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| It is true that biblical creation is not the only alternative, so it is not proven by disproof of evolution. |
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| The simplest definition is that relevant observations are those that could disprove the hypothesis, for disproof is often possible even though absolute proof is not. |
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| It is not a direct proof that the mind is something more than a machine, but a schema of disproof for any particular version of mechanism that may be put forward. |
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| I also like when it's my birthday and you look up who else was born on your birthday and it seems like that's the strongest disproof of astrology. |
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| It seems to me intellectually entirely consistent, emotionally true in lots of ways, and unbelievable only on the balance of probabilities, which is no disproof at all. |
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| Science is not yet equipped to answer the ultimate questions perhaps, but at least it looks for proof or disproof and is ever-changing as new evidence appears. |
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| As a non-science, psychology is immune to disproof of its claims. |
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| All science is, and should be, subject to challenge and disproof. |
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| The widespread blood testing of Falun Gong practitioners in detention cuts off this avenue of disproof. |
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| This very lawless, again, though it does not prove the allegations, removes a possible element of disproof. |
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| We considered any and all elements of proof and disproof which were available and which might be available. |
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| But their non-existence might well have constituted disproof. |
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| Where every possible element of disproof we could identify fails to disprove the allegations, the likelihood of the allegations being true becomes substantial. |
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| All questions of fact are capable of proof or disproof by reference to a certain standard of proof. |
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| So far, no proof or disproof of the alleged misuse of the state aid is evident, but many questions of the Commission have remained unanswered by the German government. |
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| Thus, the steady state theory had the virtue of making very specific predictions, and for this reason it was vulnerable to observational disproof. |
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| Equally, a disproof would be the mathematical equivalent of an earthquake, destroying decades of work at a stroke. All three of these books offer fascinating accounts of the story surrounding the Riemann hypothesis. |
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