Francis Galton Quotes

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

Facts always are sensational.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that kind of mind. I have a researcher who compiles the fact sheets and chronologies that allow me to write these big books of mine.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

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

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

Some things that are true are not very useful.

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.