Quotes About Fact

The fact that Kristi was an attractive young woman had nothing to do with his enthusiastic speculations, he told himself.

There is a real world; its properties are not merely social constructions; facts and evidence do matter. What sane person would contend otherwise? And yet, much contemporary academic theorizing consists precisely of attempts to blur these obvious truths.

During his first stay in the infirmary he had immediately smelled out the fact that not less than eight of the thirty inmates were Nazis.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.

It was surprising to consider that in fact there were signs, that is the embers of a voice destroyed by fire.

Ciò che spaventa si dà sempre un nome, come dimostra il fatto che gli uomini ne hanno, per prudenza, due.

There were worlds within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meaning. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.

There were world within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meanings. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

He was just one more demonstration of the fact that when the messenger was not actually shot, he or she was in other ways silenced as much as possible.1 But throughout the first decade of the century it was the early-warning sirens on blasphemy

Myth: When you have a lot of uncertainty, you need a lot of data to tell you something useful. Fact: If you have a lot of uncertainty now, you don't need much data to reduce uncertainty significantly. When you have a lot of certainty already, then you need a lot of data to reduce uncertainty significantly. In other words—if you know almost nothing, almost anything will tell you something.

Matters not how you smile, fact is that you did.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

The fact speak for themselves.

Within mummies themselves lies the potential for greatness, be it great evil or great accomplishment, but titanic forces struggle to move them. Entire chronicles may hinge on that one fact.

Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses on wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.