#demonstrated

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#any #best #business #decides #demonstrated

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#cube #demonstrated #down #i #impossible

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#hypothesis #law #natural #working

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#crude #demonstrated #devotion #fact #feeling

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#avails #become #character #city #dares

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#employs #hypotheses #inquiry #never #points

Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#arrest #because #committed #demonstrated #detain

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#demonstrated #ever #journalism #more #my own

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. ↗

— Peter Bart

#been #called #corporation #creativity #demonstrated