The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“[F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The discovery of instances which confirm a theory means very little if we have not tried, and failed, to discover refutations. For… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is, in Dr. Tillotson’s writings, an argument against the real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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