John Hurt

Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.

British Actor

Benjamin Franklin

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

American Politician

Lionel Shriver

Conservative supporters might either have the courage of their convictions or, if truly ashamed, revise them, but they should at least refute the proposition that defending your own interests is only acceptable if you're broke.

American Journalist

A'Lelia Bundles

Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, 'Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn't so bad.

Hypatia

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Greek Philosopher

Beeban Kidron

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

English Director

Nirmala Sitharaman

The government doesn't go about refuting everything that floats around.

Indian Politician

Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

American Comedian

Wilhelm Steinitz

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

American Celebrity

William Paley

English Theologian

Used when you need to strongly oppose a statement or idea, often with evidence.

Strong Opposition

'Refute' goes beyond just denying; it involves debunking the other side.

Not Just Denial

It implies providing proof or reasoning against something asserted.

Evidence Required

Predominantly used in scholarly or formal debates and discussions.

Academic Contexts

Involves a structured argument to disprove a belief or statement.

Structured Argument

Typically requires a detailed and comprehensive critique when arguing against.

Detailed Critique

 I mean, you have patients that actually suffer pains, and you try to get an objective science of that. Okay, I promised to refute all these guys, and I don't have an awful lot of time left, but let me refute a couple more of them. I said that behaviorism ought to be one of the great embarrassments of our intellectual culture,

John Searle: Our shared...

 Life's natural ups and downs will just be replaced with an endless series of ups. Sounds great, right? It may seem like a tempting offer, but perhaps it's not as ideal as it sounds. The experiment was actually designed to refute a philosophical notion called hedonism. According to hedonists,

Would you opt for a life...

 The arguments of so-called ID theorists are the same old arguments that had been refuted again and again, since Darwin down to the present day. There is an effective evolution lobby coordinating the fight on behalf of science, and I try to do all I can to help them,

Militant atheism PIPE...

 try to verify news before spreading it. While social media has enabled the truth to reach us faster, it's also allowed rumors to spread before they can be verified and falsehoods to survive long after they've been refuted. So, before you share that unbelievable

How to choose your news...

 points in a constant direction. And the tilt also explains the sun's angle of elevation at different times of year, and predicts that the seasons will be out of phase in the two hemispheres. If they'd been observed in phase, the theory would have been refuted.

David Deutsch: A new way...

 son of a goldsmith, he was a sickly kid whose school chums died of plague. He survived to cut up corpses as an anatomist, studying organs shared across species. He found a duct in animal skulls that sends saliva to the mouth. He refuted Descartes' idea

The most groundbreaking...

 take the argument that somehow the proliferation of cameras attached the cellphones is somehow lowering the standards I think is totally refuted we are communicating visually much more so than we ever have before and I think that's a good thing

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 and continue with our quest to find out what the building blocks of the universe are. Now of course, in a way those accidents reignite the debate about the value of science and engineering at the edge. It's easy to refute.

Brian Cox: What went...

 refute your idea at any stage of construction so the process was slow meticulous and cautious and Filippo had to he had to he had to fend off challenge after challenge throughout construction because people claimed that

The building of...

 energy enabled to communicate I mean they've done some some studies some people have refuted them some people have agreed with them where they a Japanese scientist took took rice or he took water for example and he said