#facts

The facts of life are very stubborn things. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I have stories. But stories are not facts.' 'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts. ↗

— Morgan Rhodes

#stories #love

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

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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

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. ↗

— Jules Verne

#facts #knowledge #science #scientific-method #truth

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. ↗

— National Academy of Sciences

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ↗

— John Adams

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What's done cannot be undone. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#faits-accomplis #truth #fact