Part of what you must learn is how to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds. Life, in part, is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when...

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

Don’t get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn’t even exist in the first place.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we...

everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world

Truth is not what we want to see, but to make us see that which is amply visible even if not seen.

I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.

The facts on the ground have changed.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what...

Only after that I can disclose any facts and details.

We had a good meeting and provided the PUD with a lot of facts and figures.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of...

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn’t. We can’t compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We’re dealing with...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their...

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science… When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

You can’t buy the love you want, you can’t sell your love. Love is given by those who deserves it.

I have stories. But stories are not facts.”I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they’re better than facts.

bootlegged opinion with facts.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

He played a brilliant game. We were able to at least salvage two points for him. Let’s face the facts: If he doesn’t play like he does for 40 minutes, we’re nowhere near that game....

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest...

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels…God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes...

An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. “But the facts, my dear fellow,”...

Those are facts and there has been no analysis done on any of this.

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.

If you’re searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you’ll be able to see the real truth.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of...

There’s no destiny; you just decide where you end.

He’s wrong on the facts, and we’re not going to respond to cheap and feckless political attacks.

The facts are that the 911 [emergency response] system will be up and operational this Wednesday, … American Morning.

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though...

He’s not explaining all the facts to the residents. He’s just pandering to a certain group in town.

Ive allways wondered what the 4 letters in the word LIFE stands for. I know understand that it stands for: Little Interesting Facts Everyday.

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

We’re filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and there’s no seeming end to it.

Luz’s manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn’t that she made things up, strictly speaking–only that facts were merely a point of departure for...

The facts and the science just don’t support that.

The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification—judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind—essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific...

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned...

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that...