The language of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which ‘Plessy’ was based had changed.
There will always be people who will criticise you without knowing the facts.
I’m the type of person who responds to facts.
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives – each project can involve years of research.
I discovered what it meant to ‘live for Christ,’ and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it’s getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don’t get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That’s a great thing.
Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who’s Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, ‘Keep your facts, I’m going with the truth.’
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they’re wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
I call myself a naturalist as opposed to an atheist, but there are different styles. Some people just like to be close to nature. And some people actually worship nature, which is too wishy-washy because – like a lot of religious believers – they don’t depend on facts.
Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.
I always tell Brock Lesnar the truth. I don’t appease Brock Lesnar. I don’t placate Brock Lesnar. When Brock Lesnar asks me for an opinion, I give to him an honest opinion that I’m willing to back up with facts, with theory.
When I first heard the ‘Urumi’ script, I was surprised, shocked, and excited. It was a strong script with a reference to the past. It had fact mixed with fiction. To incorporate facts into a film and introduce fictional characters was interesting. I loved the script.
Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we’re all knowledgeable now – if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge.
I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.
We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
The first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.
If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it’s pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
I’m sick of watching ‘Blue Lives Matter’ supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts that should make them cringe in disbelief and horror. Police brutality is systemic, not anecdotal.
