Factual Evidence Quotes

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

Logic, it is true, must yield to history.

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question.

The historian must walk a fine line between scientific detachment and humanistic engagement.

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.

All history, so far as it is not supported by contemporary evidence, is romance.

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

I am a nonbeliever myself. But I think there's so much about religion that is not factual in nature as to why people engage with it and what it means to them. You can debunk why you think there's no physical evidence for God and why the story of Jesus didn't really happen that way and stuff like that all the live-long day, and it's not going to make a difference to what role religion has in people's lives and how they feel about it and how it makes their lives better or worse.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.