Quotes about Facts

The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.

Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light. We shouldn't be afraid of the facts. If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.