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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Future, Science

  Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

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• We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

  Ryan Winfield

  People, Should

  FaceBook post by Ryan Winfield from Nov 14, 2012

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• Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Heart, Ignorance, Mind

  Drunvalo Melchizedek (2010). “Serpent of Light: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949 to 2013”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Ego, Has Beens, Universe

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• I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Believe, Views

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• My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

  James McBride

  Years, America, Parent

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black

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