Facts Quotes

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I deal in facts.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.