Quotes of Provisional - somelinesforyou

“ My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. ”

- Jack Higgins

“ All progress is experimental. ”

- John Jay Chapman

“ In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ”

- Stephen Jay Gould

“ Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a ch. ”

- Richard Ford

“ In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ”

- Stephen Jay Gould
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