Refutations Quotes

#1. The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: "Who is in his place?" - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge,

Umberto Eco

#2. Some books against Deism fell into my hands ... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. If someone can care about me that deeply, despite all my faults, despite all my refutations, despite all my everythings, then that makes all the storms and all the oceans worth it.

T.J. Klune

#4. Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

Imre Lakatos

#5. Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

Greg Farshtey

#6. Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

Victoria Schwab

#7. It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

Damien Fahey

#8. I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to say, 'Tall buildings are great' why not just leave it at that: "Tall buildings are great."

Jonathan Meades

#9. If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.

Warren Jeffs

#10. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When

Emma Donoghue