I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in terms of science. Obviously my method of thought and reasoning is influenced by...

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the...

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on ‘Episodes.’ He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he’s such a huge gay person.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the...

In fact, I’d just like to own something. Everyone thinks I’m glamorous, rich and famous but all I’ve got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

My generation was raised on ‘Dick Tracy’ cartoons, where he could get a thousand bullet holes in him like Swiss cheese and keep on going. We have a hundred trillion cells, and you would have...

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans – As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a...

In my religion it’s actually better to know you’re doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you’re doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that ‘Gunsmoke’ wasn’t just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities – not something that they chose.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they’re much more liberating because you don’t really have to apply a very strict logic.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed...

I’ve learned from my pets that it’s okay to sit around, and people don’t love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, ‘cos they always...

I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they’re doing. And so the confidence level of investors is...

There’s no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.

I really like Wisconsin. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. I enjoy the fact that it’s not L.A. or New York. And there’s some sense of normalcy here – people having children in homes...

The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I’m searching for truths.

Her makeup, hair and general quirkiness overshadow the fact that Cyndi Lauper was one the most soulful chicks to come out of the ’80s.

If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

Yes, in fact, it’s hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.

If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every chain upon the limbs of heresy was music in the ear of God....

Whatsoever thing you believe strongly,it will be turned into truth within your mind.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn’t have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress...

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that’s the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn’t be.

A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does...

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

As an actor, you have many tools – your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don’t...

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it’s going to annoy someone.

I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was –...

But there is something to the fact that we don’t see games on the West Coast, or we don’t see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It’s so unfair, because there is...

They were looking for a stable, but we didn’t have one. In fact, we weren’t very stable ourselves.

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous…. You lift your index finger half an inch; it...

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia...

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Math has never made any sense to me.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world’s poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It’s a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it’s just the opposite....

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you...

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story – by the people as a whole...