Facts Quotes - Page 112

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.

There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds

Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.