Tim Bishop (Timothy Howard "Tim" Bishop) Quotes
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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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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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
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The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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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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The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.
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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
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The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.
