#prove

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#destroy #fabric #go #i #i care

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#come #else #everybody #everybody else #experience

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#great #improve #industry #moderate #supply

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. ↗

— Sally Ride

#after #challenger #fix #gone #had

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts. ↗

— Sally Ride

#choose #clothes #like #lot #nasa

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#back #bacteria #case #crops #first

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#continuing #i #improve #me #need

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ↗

— Mark Twain

#could #crossed #deteriorate #improve #man