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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted."
"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
"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'."
"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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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."
"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."
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
"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."
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
"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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