X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=GreatQuotes;h=60e18ef75cfee930dae92db3be291f23695dc9fe;hp=fe988a6658a910fe150b2c065c67e6dde5854017;hb=baeb370da99334d99655b129e6e2f7998dea29ce;hpb=0b04d6aeadaedc04fe8d9c2f38c794403a271a2a diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index fe988a6..60e18ef 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -68,9 +68,14 @@ It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\ "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]] \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]] "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\ -— Christopher Hitchens \\ +— [[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... \\