Steve Blank Quotes

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

You must see first before you can believe.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Experience by itself is not science.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason and experience.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.

The facts are facts and records are records.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.