Quotes About Contradiction

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Art can contradict Science.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

Life without death simply isn't life, but death

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn't. I couldn't even smile.

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.