Subject: Beliefs » Facts (Page 2)

Facts without theory are trivia. Theory without facts is bullshit.

USA Today has come out with a new survey; apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Nothing is so fallacious as facts, except figures.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

(1857 – 1927) Unitarian Universalist minister

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

(1907 – 1953) American lawyer & scholar

Science: An orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be the facts.

The fact that he relies on facts … says things that are not factual… are going to undermine his campaign.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

(1838 – 1918) journalist, historian, academic & novelist

There are two kinds of statistics; those you look up and those you make up.

(1886 – 1975) American fiction writer

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

The cure to information overload is more information.

(1950 – ) American technologist, commentator, author & editor

Facts are stubborn things.

(1721 – 1771) Scottish poet & author

Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,

Are never valued till they make a noise.

(1754 – 1832) English poet, surgeon & clergyman

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

(1904 – 1963) American journalist

One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If you have the facts on your side, hammer the facts. If you have the law on your side, hammer the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, hammer the table.

Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result, are fair facts for the argument.

Facts are stubborn things.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

(1807 – 1873) paleontologist, glaciologist & geologist