#facts

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #facts




I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.


Ken Burns


#facts #i #music #photographs #research

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.


John Burroughs


#facts #imagination #imagine #one thing #thing

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.


Alfred de Vigny


#after #capacity #chain #could #events

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.


Barry Commoner


#even #facts #failed #field #focused

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.


Denis Diderot


#collects #combination #combines #experimentation #facts

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.


Wilhelm Dilthey


#existence #experience #facts #human #human world

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.


John Dingell


#being #congress #disclose #does #facts

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.


John Edwards


#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.


Harry S. Truman


#cannot #facts #get #going #judgements

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.


Jimmy Wales


#computer #court #done #face #facts