Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
I still need to go through the process of proving myself.
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.