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.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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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.
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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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.
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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.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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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.
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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.
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
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In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
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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.
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One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
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If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.
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Empiricism and positivism share the common view that scientific knowledge should in some way be derived from the facts arrived at by observation.
