It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\
— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
-"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\
-— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor | Christopher Hitchens' razor]] \\
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\
"Facts are stubborn things." \\
— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]]
+"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor | Christopher Hitchens' razor]] \\
+
+"You don’t get to say you’ve proved something if you haven’t explained it. \\
+A proof is a social construct. If the community doesn’t understand it, \\
+you haven’t done your job.” \\
+— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture
"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\