Blake Edwards Quotes

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Facts are placed before reasonings and before ideals, even though the reasonings and the ideals be more beautiful, be seemingly more lofty, be seemingly better, be seemingly truer. The seemingly absurd and the seemingly impossible are sometimes true. The scientific disposition is to accept facts upon evidence, however absurd they may appear to our pre-conceptions.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

I think like a detective.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

I deal in facts.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Facts are stubborn things.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.