#facts

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#concept #criterion #empirical #facts #growth

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#civilization #community #development #economic #facts

I hate to think life is just facts and laws. ↗

— Ang Lee

#hate #i #just #laws #life

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#fact #facts #get #ideology #innovative

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #business #cannot #communicators #corporate

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#facts #knowledge #knowledge is power #knows #man

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accept #authority #basic #calls #credibility

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#always #because #corpus #facts #including

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. ↗

— Paul Martin

#celebrate #ceremonies #charter #couples #court