#facts

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#attention #bubbling #close #close attention #facts

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

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 very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#autobiographical #bare #chronological #contains #dislike

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anything #concerned #crazy #facts #get

Food is a part of our contract with life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life-quotes #thoughts-on-life #food

Science is facts. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#science

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character. ↗

— Viola Davis

#character #circumstances #facts #first #first of all