"Who can refute a sneer?" — William S. Paley

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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… — 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… — Bertrand Russell
• It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only… — Karl Popper
• We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that… — Blaise Pascal
• And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e.,… — Irenaeus of Lyons
• For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
• The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture… — Jerry A. Coyne
• Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the… — Vladimir Putin
• But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens… — Unknown Author
• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as… — Albert Einstein

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