New Facts Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful…
— Al Gore
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[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that…
— Bill Gates
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What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of…
— Diane Ravitch
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As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People…
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them,…
— Blake Mycoskie
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Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.
— James Bryant Conant
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New facts often trigger new ideas
— T.L. Osborn
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All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established…
— Wheeler McMillen
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All genuine progress results from finding new facts
— Wheeler McMillen
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Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in…
— William James
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts
— Ernst Mayr
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Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone…
— Tom Stoppard
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified…
— Sam Harris
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling…
— William James
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This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences…
— Italo Calvino
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If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.
— Susan Juby
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When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new…
— Marianne Fredriksson
Who Wrote These New Facts Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 New Facts Quotes as follows: