Facts Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bear Ignorance Facts Ignorance Ignorance Facts Science Theory Theory Helps
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and… — Raphael Gasson Copy Share Image
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it’s lying there… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery — C-DASH Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
