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Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.”

Thinking Way Mind Science Hard Work Discovery Proof Core Tricks Frustration Mathematician Analogies Wishful Thinking Guesswork

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an indication of the conversion of copper into gum; the second constitutes proof.”

“The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.”

Spiritual Grace Doors Awareness Humility Pure Proof Maturity Impurity Spiritual Maturity

Book:Grace Notes

Source: Grace Notes

“Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.”

Atheist Proof Absence Mathematical Proof

Book:Orphan's Destiny

Source: Orphan's Destiny

“Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put by them to experimental proof; he thus brought his pupils gradually to think for themselves, besides showing and explaining to them the methods by which chemical problems might be solved experimentally.”

Thinking Ideas Problem Might Science Rich Teacher Degrees Ordinary Method Proof Experiments Productive Latter Chemicals Unusual Explaining Pupils

Author:Hermann Kolbe

“I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Happens Sports Effort Hard Work Giving Up Ordinary Perseverance Athlete Proof Great Things Persistence Motivational Sports Never Giving Up Ordinary People

Book:Out of the Blue

Source: Out of the Blue

“An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.”

Men Humans Facts Law Science Simple Animal Evolution Direct Fundamentals Proof Cells Eggs Ancestor

Book:The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester

Source: The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester

“The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our ideas of the correlation of organic bodies will be swayed by our knowledge of the history of evolution. To carry the proof of it into all branches of research would be an almost endless task. (1828)”

Ideas Real Body Light Would Be Science Steps Source Evolution Research Tasks Proof Endless Branches Investigation Every Step Correlation

Author:Karl Ernst von Baer

“You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.”

“If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.”

Ifs Remember Existence Atheism Atheist Proof Consolation If There Is A God

Book:THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship

Source: THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship

“The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.”

Religion Christianity Bible Inspired Proof Biblical Preaching

Author:Archibald Thomas Robertson

“We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.”