George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Speech at the National Press Club (2004)
“In the end, a theory that can’t be shown to be wrong can never be shown to be right.”
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 34
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Brian Cox (physicist) (1968) English physicist and former musician
in a response on forum LHCConcerns as quoted by Gia Milinovich (2008-09-06) http://www.giagia.co.uk/2008/09/06/cern-scientists-receive-death-threats
“once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right”
Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead
“Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.”
Robert Hunter (1941–2019) American musician
"Scarlet Begonias"
Song lyrics, (1974)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) American academic
Source: "Why is economics not an evolutionary science?", 1898, pp. 375-378; As cited in: Geoffrey M. Hodgson, "Veblen and darwinism." International review of sociology 14.3 (2004): 343-361
“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
Source: “And there aren’t any.”
“Mmm,” I said. “Awkward.”
“That’s defeatist talk. I’ll cobble something together. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 0.3 (p. 37)
Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution
Responding to the priest who had accompanied her to the foot of the guillotine, who had whispered, "Courage, madame! Now is the time for courage." Quoted in Women of Beauty and Heroism (1859) by Frank B. Goodrich, p. 301.
Variant translations:
Courage! The moment when my ills are going to end is not the moment when courage is going to fail me.
To the juror, Abbé Girard, shortly before her death, quoted in Marie-Antoinette a la Conciergerie (du ler août au 16 octobre 1793) 2nd edition (1864) by M. Émile Campardon
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
As quoted in Marie Antoinette (2008) by Jane Bingham, p. 39
John Byrne (1950) American author and artist of comic books
2007
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=20864&PN=1&TPN=1
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Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez's Speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Wednesday, September 20, 2006