Quote by Tom Stoppard
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. – Tom Stoppard

Other quotes by Tom Stoppard

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard

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Beauty
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard

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power
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall its a painting, and if you can walk around it its a sculpture. – Tom Stoppard

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Truth
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck

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Love truth, but pardon error. – Voltaire

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Truth

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Truth

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Truth

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Their memorys like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you cant remember Tell the things you cant forget that History puts a saint in every dream. – Tom Waits

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Writing

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larson

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Happiness

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos

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