Facts Quotes

• The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Example
  • Scientist
  • Majority

• The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

  

  William Shatner
  • May
  • Possibility
  • Physics

• Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

  

  Aristotle
  • Animals
  • Divine
  • Bees

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

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Free
  • Honesty
  • Forgiveness

• Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Energy
  • Law
  • Pain

• History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • History
  • Mistake
  • Identity

• I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

  

  Ella Baker
  • College
  • New York
  • Depression

• My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Fate
  • Facts
  • Understood

• Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Way
  • Small
  • Note

• Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Violence
  • Facts
  • Resistance

• One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reason
  • Mathematics
  • Sciences

• The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

  

  Bill Gothard
  • God
  • Ifs
  • God's Will

• Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Disaster
  • Obscure

• In fact, Bernard Leach was several generations removed from us. At that time we were there, I think Alix MacKenzie and I were 26 and 28, and Leach was about 63, and we thought he was a very old man. I used to always want to help him up the stairs in the house for fear he'd fall. Actually, he was in excellent condition and lived to be much, much older than we ever expected.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • House
  • Helping
  • Generations

• This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Firsts
  • Encounters

• I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Atheism

• A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Eye
  • Dog
  • Cat

• The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Running
  • Causes

• We certainly accomplished a lot this year. We were 6-10 last year, and the facts speak for themselves this year. We got a lot of good things done.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Done
  • Improvement

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

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Information

• The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better. Years, Get Better, Facts

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Years
  • Facts
  • Get Better

• When everyone faces the harsh facts of life and comes to understand that privilege is not a right but a reward, we shall return to full employment because there is more than enough work to keep the whole world busy.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Life
  • Faces
  • Harsh

• Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • True
  • Sometimes

• I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

  

  Anna Journey
  • Facts
  • Superstition
  • Grotesque

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