#acts

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#appear #atomic #consideration #detailed #discovered

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#axioms #cover #deduction #empirical #facts

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#contacts #cycling #france #i #keep

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

#clearness #detracts #language #much #nothing

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years. ↗

— Tim Holden

#anti-semitism #countries #democracies #frequency #including

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#best #cease #character #facts #part

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#crazy #drive #everything #facts #found

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts. ↗

— Robert Irvine

#exaggerate #experiences #facts #family #house

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ↗

— Harold Kushner

#body #carry #feel #feeling #get