12 Quotes by C. S. Lewis about Facts


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    If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

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    The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

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    We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

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    When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

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    We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

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    The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

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    In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

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    God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

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