Justin Raimondo Quotes

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Facts are better than dreams.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

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.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.