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“Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.”
Victor Hugo
“Don't confuse facts with reality.”
Robert D. Ballard
“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”
Norman Cousins
“I'm sorry to sayso but, sadly it's truethat bang-ups and hang-upscan happen to you”
Dr. Seuss
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”
Charles Darwin
“Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution”
Theodosius Dobzhansky
“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body”
Edmund Burke
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Henry Brooks Adams
“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.”
R. D. Laing
