Refute Quotes

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. — Josh Billings
I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and… — Blaise Pascal
And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated… — Irenaeus of Lyons
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute… — Jerry A. Coyne
Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an… — Vladimir Putin
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so moved, and there… — Nicole Oresme
I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of… — Albert Einstein
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson
Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in… — Elbert Hubbard
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter,… — James Boswell
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder
[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it enough… — Laszlo Radvanyi
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real. — Sarah Palin
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. — Isaiah Berlin
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need… — Albert Camus

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