#facts

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

#open-mindedness #nature

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#science #science

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #cease to exist #exist #facts #ignored

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. ↗

— Mark Twain

#more #pliable #statistics #stubborn

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts. ↗

— Martin Bashir

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#convictions #facts #far #life #more

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored. ↗

— Robert Casey

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