“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“Proof must be solid break walls of facts.”
(1945)
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“These eight rules [above] contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs.”
Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
“Break, break the walls between the peoples.”
Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof
(1859–1917) Polish ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto
Vivo de Zamenhof http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26359 (The life of Zamenhof), Biography by w:Edmond Privat, published in 1920
Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
A Succinct History of the Controversy respecting the Cerebral Structure of Man and the Apes, Evidence as to Man's place in Nature (1863)
1860s
Context: I do not mean to suggest that scientific differences should be settled by universal suffrage, but I do conceive that solid proofs must be met by something more than empty and unsupported assertions. Yet during the two years through which this preposterous controversy has dragged its weary length, Professor Owen has not ventured to bring forward a single preparation in support of his often-repeated assertions.
The case stands thus, therefore: Not only are the statements made by me in consonance with the doctrines of the best older authorities, and with those of all recent investigators, but I am quite ready to demonstrate them on the first monkey that comes to hand; while Professor Owen's assertions are not only in diametrical opposition to both old and new authorities, but he has not produced, and, I will add, cannot produce, a single preparation which justifies them.
“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
Antonio Gramsci
(1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist
“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan
book
Cosmos
42 min 33 sec
Variant: A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Persistence of Memory [Episode 11]
Context: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
“We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.”
Helen Thomas
(1920–2013) American author and journalist
Phone interview on The Majority Report, 2004-04-02
