Disprove Quotes
46 quotes by 44 authors
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
— Albert Einstein
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There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered…
— Carl Sagan
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire…
— Dan Barker
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There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population…
— Bertrand Russell
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I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
— Paul Gray
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Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little…
— Michael Kinsley
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The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.
— Alan Ayckbourn
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,…
— George Washington
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Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a…
— Ann Coulter
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To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
— Cary Grant
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No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove…
— Karl Popper
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Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and…
— Lawrence Kudlow
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When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained…
— Leonhard Euler
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Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof…
— Ronald Graham
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest…
— Peter Kreeft
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that…
— Richard Dawkins
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