Refuted Quotes

37 quotes by 29 authors

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can… — Ann Coulter
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. — Robert Trout
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in… — Karl Popper
As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the… — Samuel Johnson
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century),… — Michael Shermer
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?… — Milan Kundera
What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) — Stephen Batchelor
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete… — Murray Rothbard
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted. — Stephen Jay Gould
Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were… — Robert P. McCulloch
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal,… — Origen
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. — Louise Slaughter

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