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Quotes About Confutation

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
~ Archimedes
This prospect was in absolute contradiction to the optimism in which we children of the coast had been brought up, and I opposed the idea with shocked protests. But for me the true, living confutation of those arguments was Lll: in her I saw the perfect, definitive form, born from the conquest of the land that had emerged; she was the sum of the new boundless possibilities that had opened. How could my great-uncle try to deny the incarnate reality of Lll?
~ Italo Calvino