Fact Quotes

10490 Fact quotes by 5855 unique authors

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. — Russell Baker
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact… — Bertrand Russell
The fatal futility of Fact. — Henry James
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. — Elizabeth Blackwell
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do… — Victor Hugo
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science,… — Charles Lyell
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. — Miguel de Unamuno
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature… — Francis Bacon
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of… — Louis Agassiz
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the… — Bertrand Russell
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils… — Richard Dawkins
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court… — Abraham Lincoln
It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at… — Bill Shankly
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God, cooperating if necessary… — Pope Benedict XVI
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his… — Leonardo da Vinci

Who Wrote These Fact Quotes

5,855 authors contributed a total of 10,490 Fact Quotes, led by these top contributors: