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Sit down
before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up
every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to
whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist,
Educator
I have always
found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of
the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who
wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
-- Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman,
Former CEO of Chrysler
The fatal
futility of Fact.
-- Henry James
1843-1916, American Author
Our esteem for
facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is
itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
-- William James
1842-1910, American
Psychologist, Professor, Author
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The god whom
science recognizes must be a God of universal laws
exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail
business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the
convenience of individuals.
-- William James
1842-1910, American
Psychologist, Professor, Author
One precedent
creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law.
What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
-- Junius
1769-1771, Anonymous British
Letter Writer
The ultimate
umpire of all things in life is -- fact.
-- Agnes C. Laut
1871-1936, Canadian
Journalist, Author
One of the
most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection
of facts, because they can be made to appear so many
different ways.
-- Karl A. Menninger
1893-1990, American
Psychiatrist
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