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Quotes About Unprovable

If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
~ John D. Barrow
Then there is the speculative work of anthropologists like Helen Fisher, who claim to tell us about the origins of love or of infidelity or cooperation by reference to other societies, animal behavior, and the fossil record. How can she be wrong? These are untestable, unprovable stories.
~ Michael Crichton
At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Maximus knows and expressly states that "faith is true knowledge (?????? ??????) based on unprovable principles, because it is the testimony to things that lie beyond both theoretical and practical reason."69
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar