Proven Quotes

• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

  William D. Leahy

  War, Experts, Bombs

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• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

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• It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.

  Vincenzo Galilei

  Freedom, Truth, Science

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• Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

  Marcelo H. del Pilar

  Peace, Mean, Uprising

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• Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

  Yeardley Smith

  Smoking, Alcohol, Chinese

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• I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Believe, Science

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Voice, Devil

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• The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

  Forrest Church

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Love and Death". Book by Forrest Church, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2008.

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• The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Faith, Hope, Eye

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• They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

  Bill Hicks

  Life, Smoking, Comedian

  "Dark Poet". Stand-up show, 1991.

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• The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

  Charles Hodge

  Bible, God, Christian

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• All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

  Peter Singer

  Encouragement, Nature, Animal

  "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Stills, Beatty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ignorance, Discovery, Obstacles

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• To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.

  Simon Ramo

  Believe, Consciousness, Prove

  Simon Ramo (2005). “Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings: Getting Things Done when People are Involved”, Amer Bar Assn

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• Hillary Clinton has aligned herself with Barack Obama on ISIS, Iran and the economy. It's an alliance doomed to fail. My proven record suggests that - my detailed plans will fortify our national and economic security. And my proven record as governor makes - will give you a sense that I don't make false promises.

  Jeb Bush

  Iran, Isis, Giving

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.

  Ronald Jones

  Death Penalty, Guilty, Innocent

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• Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Innocence, Innocent

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• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Thinking, Special, Impossible

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• What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

  Deborah Norville

  Gratitude, Grateful, Benefits

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• In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  Rachel Cusk

  Home, Desire, Want

  "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

  Julie Burchill

  Discipline, People, Mind

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• A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

  Jean Chretien

  Funny, Kind, Proof

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• Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

  Joe Rogan

  Ideas, Growth, Doe

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