Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.
With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.