Facts Quotes - Page 134

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.

When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.

He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.

In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

This is all a bit of a puzzle, ... It will depend obviously on how quickly these areas can be repopulated, and also you've got the positive of reconstruction spending and the fact that that will create jobs.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

Truth is independent of facts always.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.