Annoyed Quote by Norman Lamm

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

— James Randi

“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

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the…

— Anonymous

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

— H. L. Mencken

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what…

— Talcott Parsons

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

— H. L. Mencken

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

— Maurice Allais

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts…

— Steven Pinker

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

— Thomas Sowell

A belief may be larger than a fact.

— Vannevar Bush

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

— Robert Green Ingersoll