Daley Thompson Quotes

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

I state facts all the time.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

You can not define being exactly on time.

I deal in facts.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

The heart of science is measurement.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

I'll bring my stopwatch.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.