More quotations tagged with “facts”
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
—Edward Teller
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die.… You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
—William Boyd
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley
Facts are the enemy of truth.
—Miguel de Cervantes
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life—so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
—Matt Cartmill