Quotes About Facts

What ideology, I wondered, was not based on a principled denial of the facts?

The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.

it's the meaning behind the information that people are looking for more than the facts. The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

To restore Cleopatra is as much to salvage the few facts as to peel away the encrusted myth and the hoary propaganda.

Scientific "facts" are taught at a very early age and in the very same manner in which religious "facts" were taught only a century ago.… But science is excepted from criticism. In society at large the judgment of the scientist is received with the same reverence as the judgment of bishops and cardinals was accepted not too long ago.… science has now become as oppressive as the ideologies it had once to fight. (ibid., p. 182)

Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.

And you know that if you looked at these facts when you are happy, you would feel great because you are describing unity.

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

The truth is in the details.

Life is easy with a little offer and Competitive with facts.

It's just facts, Mrs Brady. Facts, to help women take control of their own bodies, their own lives. Nothing sinful about it. Hell, even our own federal court approved that book.

I listened as she griped enthusiastically about the pathetic emotional stamina of the undergrads foisted upon her. She'd said the same thing last year. I said, "It's gotten worse?" "It's nonstop devolution, Alex. The batch I got this semester is allergic to facts and feels entitled to unearned adoration. We're talking the emotional musculature of blind cave worms.

Keith Moon in Wembley, England, all facts attested to by the writing on the memorials.

Becky's experience of poverty is common. In fact, temporary poverty like Becky experienced is far more common than the chronic, grinding deprivation that easily comes to mind when thinking of poverty. The idea that most people who require help are born poor and will always be poor, subsisting only thanks to state benefits, is increasingly out of whack with the facts.

the plural of "anecdote" is "data.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.* We shouldn't be afraid of the facts. If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

identify the elements of the plan that are assumptions rather than facts, and figure out ways to test them.