Quotes About Fact

Each of the two Western leaders came to believe that they could form a 'special' bond with Stalin. Both were wrong. Stalin had no 'special' bond with anyone. But in their attempt to charm him they had missed the fact that he had, in his own individual way, charmed them instead.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

The fatal futility of Fact.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.