New Fact Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to…
— Lewis Thomas
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In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on…
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
— William James
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
— Willa Cather
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The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
— Charles Nicolle
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To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow…
— John H. Lienhard
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Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.
— E. E. Evans-Pritchard
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Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which…
— Claude Bernard
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Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have…
— Arthur Koestler
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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts…
— Barbara Deming
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Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
— John Dewey
Who Wrote These New Fact Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 New Fact Quotes as follows: