Facts Quotes - Page 79

The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been said-that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

I've interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I've really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don't ultimately know where they're going. That's terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

It is a fact that you project what you are.