Stefan Banach famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

  • The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.

  • An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

  • Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

  • Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

  • The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

  • Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

  • We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

  • A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  • When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.