Quotes of Proving - somelinesforyou

“ In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ By the time I was a student in high school… I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. ”

- John Nash

“ There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ”

- E. B. White

“ Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even "unreal" ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing "external… ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help. ”

- Steve Perry

“ False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ”

- Charles Darwin

“ I've recently bought a mini iPod. And because I travel on public transport it's proving a good way to listen to music again. Most recently I've been listening to what is called nu-soul: American singers such as Jill Scott, Angie Stone, India Arie and Erykah Badu. ”

- Diane Abbott
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