#roof

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#fact #furnishes #idea #itself #nothing

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. ↗

— George Borrow

#beneath #i #i am #invariably #people

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain? ↗

— Billie Burke

#complain #head #i #keep #laugh

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework. ↗

— Dick Butkus

#anything #framework #get #good #got

They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #ask #bribes #else #forfeiture

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#faith #future #happened #in the past #may

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. ↗

— Alan Coren

#foolproof #i #i wonder #items #keep

Absence of proof is not proof of absence. ↗

— William Cowper

#proof

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#been #boston #chicago #city #excited

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#himself #idol #mathematician #proof #pure