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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men."
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"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
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"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
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"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted."
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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'."
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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
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"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
Debate
"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."
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"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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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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"Who will observe the observers?"
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"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control."
Nature
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
Body
"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
Nature
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
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"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."
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