Facts Quotes

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

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.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become modified; and the subject haunted me.

When on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Go wherever the facts lead.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.