Facts Quotes - Page 88

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.

They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.