Subject: Beliefs » Facts (Page 3)

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

Beliefs Facts Murphy’s Laws

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Communication Facts Language Science/Weather

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

Beliefs Definitions Facts Science/Weather

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

(1904 – 1963) American journalist
Beliefs Communication Facts Reading/Writing

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

(1838 – 1918) journalist, historian, academic & novelist
Beliefs Facts Government Politics

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Facts Situations

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

Facts Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

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

Facts Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Facts are stubborn things.

(1721 – 1771) Scottish poet & author
Beliefs Facts