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An idea on paper to a reality in large part.

— Tom Ridge

One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It…

— Simone Weil

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable…

— George Eliot

“Nowadays people rush into print before they’ve even finished the proof.”

— Denis Guedj

“In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.”

— Evan Angler

“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

— IU?. I. Manin

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

— Morris Kline

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided…

— Clive Thompson

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

— Larry Wall

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

— David Hockney

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

— Satoshi Kanazawa