G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) British mathematician
Source: Ramanujan (1940), Ch. I : The Indian mathematician Ramanujan.
“For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.”
Source: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 3, “The Great Conservation Principles,” p. 75
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XVII, 11
The Kitáb-I-Asmá
Context: Should a person lay claim to a cause and produce his proofs, then those who seek to repudiate him are required to produce proofs like unto his. If they succeed in doing so, his words will prove vain and they will prevail; otherwise neither his words will cease nor the proofs he hath set forth will become void. I admonish you, O ye who are invested with the Bayán, if ye would fain assert your ascendancy, confront not any soul unless ye give proofs similar to that which he hath adduced; for Truth shall be firmly established, while aught else besides it is sure to perish.
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Book IV, Chapter 17
From St. Athanasius' Life of St. Antony
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)
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In a letter to Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (14 May 1826), defending Chevalier d'Angos against presumption of guilt (by Johann Franz Encke and others), of having falsely claimed to have discovered a comet in 1784; as quoted in Calculus Gems (1992) by George F. Simmons
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