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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"Gnani' [the enlightened one] is He who gives proof of whatever He says. He would not say, 'All that I have said is correct; you will have to accept it'."
"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted."
"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
"It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them."
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