Quotes about fact
facts needs theory
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of. Terence McKenna
facts novelty conservation
If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.
facts psychedelic astronaut
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
facts world want
I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read. Randall Munroe
facts argument certain
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. Ralph Waldo Emerson
facts mr-spock danger
Insufficient facts always invite danger. Leonard Nimoy
facts needs complicated
You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is. Sam Altman
facts montauk
I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. Rufus Wainwright
facts wheel-of-time proof
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying. Robert Jordan
facts politics seems
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. Robert Peel
facts chill trouble
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
facts fax holograms
Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram. Saul Williams
facts london submission
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity. Tom Paulin
facts way salvation
But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior. Tim LaHaye
facts conscious well-being
Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures. Sam Harris
facts deny acceptance-speech
I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me! Sally Field
facts wilson persons
The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends. Roy Jenkins
facts tribes cameras
I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe. Susan Sarandon
facts purpose want
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill…. Thomas A. Edison
facts attributes born
There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you. Simon Callow
facts reason-why reason
I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have, Sharon Gless
facts film excited
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering. Natalie Portman
facts body interpretation
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. Talcott Parsons
facts theory importance
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
facts problem certain
The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
facts doe states
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
facts problem relevant
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
facts failing reason
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
facts opinion
You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts. Talib Kweli
facts windy walks
And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road. Suzan-Lori Parks
facts used university
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University Tony Randall
facts source humans
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source. Tony Abbott
facts plans according-to-plan
Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan. Simon Sinek