
“But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.”
Aphorism 70
Novum Organum (1620), Book I
“But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.”
Aphorism 70
Novum Organum (1620), Book I
“The best proof of love is trust.”
As quoted in Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul : 101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter' (2001) by Jack Canfield, p. 25
“By several proofs experience art has made,
Example being guide.”
Per varios usus artem experientia fecit,
Exemplo monstrante viam.
Book I, line 61. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays, Vol. III, Ch. 13 (tr. Charles Cotton).
Variant translation: Experience, after many trials, perfected the art, example showing the way.
Astronomica
[Kathy O'Hara's constructive proof of the unimodality of the Gaussian polynomials, Amer. Math. Monthly, 96, 1989, 592 of 590–602, http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/kathy-oharas-constructive-proof-of-the-unimodality-of-the-gaussian-polynomials]
“The best proof that there’s intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn’t come here.”
Disputed
Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 14. Mind and Supermind