Refutation Quotes

Refutation Quote of the day

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.