Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Pasteur

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

John Lindsay

I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

Antonin Artaud

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Stephen Jay Gould

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Robert A. Heinlein

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

Stefan Banach

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

Michael Mandelbaum

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Jeaniene Frost

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Patrick Ness

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

Peter Greenaway

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

David Ricardo

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Robert Keats

Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Ben Bradlee

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Karen Osborne

This is identification at the polls, not proof of citizenship.

Jim Ramstad

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Alejandro Toledo

I think that was the right thing to do. If we would have participated, we would have participated in a fraudulent process.

Frank Scafidi

The fraud comes in when you get vehicles owned by big-time salvage guys or small-time knuckleheads who wash the title through states that don't have strong title laws.

Craig Fugate

The intent of the program was not to provide you a generator for free. We don't want fraud and waste in our programs.

Bruce Springsteen

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

Eric Carlson

There was just very little fraud going on. I just don't think it was nearly as much of a problem as they suspected.

Adam Ereli

There were major irregularities and fraud that are of serious concern.

Tom Gallagher

This kind of insurance fraud leads to the overall negative perception of Florida's insurance professionals.

Al Pacino

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Tim Potts

What a fraud this whole thing was. A procedural fraud.