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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted."
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"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
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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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"The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men."
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"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
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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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"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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"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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"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
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"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
Nature
"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
"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."
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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
Mathematics
"Who will observe the observers?"
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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."
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