Objective Fact Quotes

Whatever is true transcends culture and religion. We do not talk of Christian physics or Moslem Algebra.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

Liberation from meaning leaves us skeptical of truth itself, comfortable only to acknowledge 'your truth' and 'my truth,' confident only in the reality of subjective feeling rather than objective fact.

George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Writers and believers live their lives haunted by the same question: What happens to our days once they disappear? The objective fact is that each day that passes is lost forever, as forbidden to us as the dead. But prayer and fiction offer a different answer. Those lost days still live among us, written in each person's hand, turned into stories.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.