Factual Quotes

108 quotes by 100 authors

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use… — David Attenborough
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and… — Geraldine Brooks
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. — Steve Wozniak
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of… — E. O. Wilson
That claim was not intended to be a factual statement. — Jon Kyl
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem… — John Allen Paulos
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. — John E. Jones III
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to… — Al Gore
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. — Dorothea Lange
Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions… — Jay Kinney
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all… — Christian Slater
Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed… — Michael Jackson
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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