Alan Chalmersun Quotes

Empiricism and positivism share the common view that scientific knowledge should in some way be derived from the facts arrived at by observation.

Alan Chalmersun

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• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Observation

• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Different
  • Know
  • Facts

• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Solution

• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • True
  • Always
  • Facts

• 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
  • Character
  • Best
  • Facts

• Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Learn
  • Animal
  • Facts

• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Thinks

• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Important
  • Facts

• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Facts
  • Errors
  • Overthrow

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Speculation

• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • True

• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Mind
  • Professional
  • Facts

• It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • People
  • Great
  • Facts

• Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Facts
  • Fiction
  • Max

• We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Information

• In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Free
  • Facts
  • Honesty

• I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

  

  Kanye West
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Facts

• I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Novel

• While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • May
  • Night
  • Morning

• I see nothing to fear in inner space.

  

  Yeshe Tsogyal
  • Fear
  • Space

• Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • True
  • Spiritual
  • Blessed

• Empiricism and positivism share the common view that scientific knowledge should in some way be derived from the facts arrived at by observation.

  

  Alan Chalmersun
  • Facts
  • Observation
  • Empiricism