Is proof stronger than evidence? Let me quote a phrase from a book I am reading: The object hanging before her was from another world, millions of miles away. And trapped within it was evidence - no, proof - that man was not alone in the universe. What strikes me here is that proof should mean something else than evidence. If I analyze the sentence, it seems that proof is a sort of strónger evidence. Is that the case? In the Dutch English dictionaries I am consulting both words, proof and evidence, get translated to the exact same words in Dutch. Is proof 'stronger' than evidence? Or are they just synonyms?