Facts Quotes

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

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.

~ François Magendie

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.

~ Jayson Engay

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,—the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.

~ Humphry Davy

The source of man is in man,and when a man dies,millions of men die in him.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

He was painfully aware of the fact that he was in his underwear. Not the best situation in which to fight people.

~ Christian M. Frank

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

~ Matthew Fontaine Maury

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

~ Mark Twain

So you have to accept facts as fact.

~ Ai Yazawa

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.

~ Tom Rob Smith

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

~ Mark Twain

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

~ Edith Wharton

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

~ Peg Bracken

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

~ Werner Herzog

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

~ Hyman G. Rickover

Lord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Thought they were nasty, hard things, all nobs. Mervyn Bunter: Yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say... Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were. Oh, excuse me. How infernally rude of me. Beg pardon, I'm sure. Mervyn Bunter: That's all right, my lord. Lord Peter Wimsey: Thank you. Mervyn Bunter: Yes indeed, I was one of seven. Lord Peter Wimsey: That is pure invention, Bunter, I know better. You are unique. But you were going to tell me about your mater. Mervyn Bunter: Oh yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, and they generally run away. Lord Peter Wimsey: By Jove, that's courageous, Bunter. What a splendid person she must be. Mervyn Bunter: I think so, my lord.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

~ Celia Green

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.

~ Richard Hughes

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

~ Anne Carson

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

~ Gene Siskel

Whatever happens right now, it has to happen.

~ Jayson Engay

Help yourself before you help others.

~ Jayson Engay

These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.

~ Lavie Tidhar

I'm sure there's some hexplanation. Within every beast there's always some beauty! It's not fair to assume that anyone is bad before we all know the facts. Maybe it's just a misunderstanding and there is no bad beast at The End of this story. But the only way we're ever-after going to find out is by getting to the bottom of this!

~ Perdita Finn

Some things never change

~ Jeffrey Archer

Men often fall in love at first sight

~ Jeffrey Archer

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

~ George Orwell

• Scientific and medical studies, research or evidence is either distorted and misrepresented, or disputed or outright ignored by opponents whose views are threatened by the facts, in public shows of articles, statements, websites and even legislation. Scientific facts are ignored or dismissed as being ‘a liberal agenda’ or ‘merely propaganda’.

~ Christina Engela

Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions

~ Sunday Adelaja

I like facts... but sometimes too much of it... just puts limits in your head.

~ Deyth Banger

Don’t conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

~ William Faulkner

Turns out all it takes to bring enemies to peace is a bigger enemy.

~ Soman Chainani

Love comes with faith.

~ Jayson Engay

Have a seat with me,” Caine said, hopping down from the wall. “How have you been, Taylor?”“Life’s one big party,” she said.He laughed appreciatively at her joke. “Things must be pretty bad for Edilio to send for me, huh?”“Things are always pretty bad,” she said. “We’re at a new level of bad. I saw those bugs.”Caine mustered all his sincerity. “I have to go and fight these creatures. But I don’t know much about them.”Taylor told him what she knew. Caine felt some of his confidence drain away as she laid out the facts in gruesome detail and with complete conviction.“Well, this should be fun,” Diana said dryly. “I’m so glad we came back.

~ Michael Grant

The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.

~ Cary Mcneal

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster -- it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.

~ Gwenda Bond