Unproved Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. — Arthur Keith
• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved… — L. Harrison Matthews
• We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is… — Thomas Dwight
• Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong… — William James
• A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg
• I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early… — Henry David Thoreau
• But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which… — Julian Coolidge
• Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven. — Edwin Louis Cole
• Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no… — Stephen Jay Gould

Who Wrote These Unproved Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Unproved Quotes as follows:

• 1 Unproved Quote by Edwin Louis Cole
• 1 Unproved Quote by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1 Unproved Quote by Arthur Keith
• 1 Unproved Quote by L. Harrison Matthews
• 1 Unproved Quote by Thomas Dwight
• 1 Unproved Quote by William James
• 1 Unproved Quote by Atle Selberg
• 1 Unproved Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Unproved Quote by Julian Coolidge