Quotes about Fact

Thomas Sowell

Evidence is fact that discriminates between one theory and another. Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Theories can be devastated by facts but they can never be proven correct by facts. What empirical verification can do is to reveal which of the competing theories currently being considered is more consistent with that which is known factually. Some other theory may come along tomorrow that is still more consistent with the facts, or explains those facts with fewer, clearer, or more manageable assumptions.

Donald Johanson

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Michael Scott

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Margaret Fuller

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

James Randi

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

Belief and/or ideology of even teh vast majority or the world has no influence on the vaidity and truth of science. A particualr scientific statement is true or not based an many factors, none of which have anything to do with beliefs, world views, custims, cultures, or religious doctrine.

Cindy Sheehan

I Want The Truth

Mrs Shehan was trying to have a meeting with the President to ask why the nations was occupying Iraq.

Grover Norquist

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

Carl Sagan

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Margaret Atwood

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.