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Anonymous Aphorism
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Science Quotes by Anonymous Aphorism (5 quotes)
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
— Anonymous Aphorism
Seen, for example, in John Bromham Hawes, Early Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment (1913), 26.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
— Anonymous Aphorism
Seen attributed to Mark Twain, likely falsely, because the quotation with that wording is not found in complilations of his work. On the Quote Investigator website, possible precursors are listed. The earliest QI found is from a Newcastle, Pennsylvania, newspaper (1925): “One way to find success without working for it is to look it up in the dictionary.” A closer match found by QI is in a column, 'The Press Box', by Stubby Currence in the Bluefield, West Virginia newspaper, Bluefield Daily Telegraph (1935): “BUFF SAYS: “The dictionary is the only place where you come to SUCCESS before you get to WORK.” It is unclear if the quip was in circulation earlier, and merely recited in these examples. Vince Lombardi used a similar wording much later.
The gold of truth cannot be altered by the acid of falsehood.
— Anonymous Aphorism
End of page filler in The Medico-pharmaceutical Critic and Guide (1910), 13, 261.
Think like a proton — always positive.
— Anonymous Aphorism
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
— Anonymous Aphorism
Unverified (even though seen attributed—without citation—to Galileo Galilei). Notably, Webmaster has, so far, been unable to found it in any old books of quotations. The earliest use Webmaster found was in a weekly paper, Benjamin Franklin Underwood (ed.), The Index (6 Apr 1881), New Series Vol. 2, 476. Webmaster found no primary evidence that it came from Galileo.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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