Facts Quotes - Page 122

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

This is the great fact: strength is life.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks.