1,424 Quotes About Fact

Math has never made any sense to me.

It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic against Alzheimer's. Newspapers are of course also the place where crosswords (and now sudokus) are most readily available, so the association is presumably good for circulation.

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

في زمن يكثر العاديين في مدح أنفسهم و يبالغوا في ذلك! فما ظنك في الخارقين؟!

قد ينجو الغريقان معا؛ فقط إذا حاول كل واحد منهما إنقاذ الآخر!

We always hurt the ones we love, darling. You’ll have to tell her you’re sorry. And mean it and give her time. - Grace Trevelyan-Grey to Christian Grey