Facts Quotes

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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated… — Karl Pearson
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that… — Stephen Jay Gould
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths… — Gottfried Leibniz
I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the… — Winston Churchill
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. — George Eliot
Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory. — Stephen Jay Gould
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. — Edmund Burke
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. — Joseph Addison
Facts are counterrevolutionary. — Eric Hoffer
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. — William Faulkner
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comment is free but facts are sacred. — C P Scott
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. — Thomas Huxley
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless… — Richard Mitchell
Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories. — Chris Brogan
The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations… — Ratan Tata
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. — Jean Genet
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be… — Carolyn Wells
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. — Linus Pauling
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. — Dan Quayle

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