If you designed and set up an experiment to prove Murphy’s law, and then when you run the experiment nothing goes wrong. Does that prove or disprove Murphy’s law?
A lot of comments are saying that this is a reference to the the veil (or curtain) in the temple being torn. But it seems more likely to me that it is referring to the crucifixion darkness where the sky becomes dark in the daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus
No, Franklin Roosevelt said in his 1933 inaugural address, “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
Although others have said similar things prior to this. Henry David Thoreau in 1851 said “Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”
It has also been misattributed to President John Kennedy.
A lynx holding its huge front paw up with a bandage around it hobbles into a saloon in the old west on its three good legs. The lynx looks up at the bartender and says, “I’m lookin’ for the man who shot my paw.”
If you designed and set up an experiment to prove Murphy’s law, and then when you run the experiment nothing goes wrong. Does that prove or disprove Murphy’s law?