Refutation Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing… — William Hazlitt
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the… — Benjamin Franklin
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief… — Friedrich Nietzsche
...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the… — Muhammad Asad
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it. — Naomi Oreskes
An alternate explanation is not a refutation. — Greg Koukl
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy? — Emile M. Cioran
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further… — Galileo Galilei
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past.… — Alan Turing
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.… — Karl Popper
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. — Arthur C. Clarke
All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek… — Peter Medawar
I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other,… — Henri Bergson
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,… — Stephen Hawking
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. — Marcel Proust
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. — Benjamin Disraeli
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut… — Tom Stoppard
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them;… — Marcel Proust
The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light. — Martin Amis

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