A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.
John BergerThere is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.
Gene SiskelThe right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley SheridanTags: imagination memory facts jokes jests
The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.
U.S. National Academy of SciencesTags: science theories opinions facts definition
Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.
E.E. Evans-PritchardLord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Thought they were nasty, hard things, all nobs.
Mervyn Bunter: Yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say...
Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were. Oh, excuse me. How infernally rude of me. Beg pardon, I'm sure.
Mervyn Bunter: That's all right, my lord.
Lord Peter Wimsey: Thank you.
Mervyn Bunter: Yes indeed, I was one of seven.
Lord Peter Wimsey: That is pure invention, Bunter, I know better. You are unique. But you were going to tell me about your mater.
Mervyn Bunter: Oh yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, and they generally run away.
Lord Peter Wimsey: By Jove, that's courageous, Bunter. What a splendid person she must be.
Mervyn Bunter: I think so, my lord.
Tags: humor facts lord-peter-wimsey
The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes detection trifles facts importance details crimes trivialities
All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: intelligence theories sherlock-holmes intuition facts insight evidence instinct superiority detectives criminal-justice crime-solving juries
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes racing detection destruction facts brains machines analysis uselessness engines
Facts are subversive
I.F. StoneTags: facts
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