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Facts

«Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.»
Author: Dr. Linus Pauling | About: Facts
«It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Age, Belief, Facts, Spirit | Keywords: imaginative
«I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death»
«Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould | About: Facts | Keywords: facts, speak for, theory, The Light
«It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year»
«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 every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.»
«Facts are to the mind what food is to the body»
«Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.»
«From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.»
«Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.»

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