Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
“These eight rules [above] contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs.”
The Art of Persuasion
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Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786–1867) United States philosopher and banker
Preface.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)
Context: All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We [generally and incorrectly] reverse the rule and interpret nature by language.
“Proof must be solid break walls of facts.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
(1945)
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: The Rise & Fall of Society (1959), p. 77
“I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain.”
Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.
Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) French mathematician and lawyer
Note written on the margins of his copy of Claude-Gaspar Bachet's translation of the famous Arithmetica of Diophantus, this was taken as an indication of what became known as Fermat's last theorem, a correct proof for which would be found only 357 years later; as quoted in Number Theory in Science and Communication (1997) by Manfred Robert Schroeder
“At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XX : Persistence; Mr. Maxwell to Helen
Charles Baudelaire book Les Paradis artificiels
Hélas! les vices de l’homme, si pleins d’horreur qu’on les suppose, contiennent la preuve (quand ce ne serait que leur infinie expansion!) de son goût de l’infini. <br class="br">"Le poème du haschisch," I: Le goût de l’infini http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Paradis_artificiels_-_I <br class="br">Les paradis artificiels (1860)
“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Great Hunt