#fact

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#before #child #conceived #down #every

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beyond #fact #far #get #go

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#business #confirm #fact #facts #harmonize

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

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What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#because #changed #changing #facts #how

There are no facts, only interpretations. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#interpretations #only

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#away #being #comes #cut #experience