Theme: “A Fact’s a Fact”

💬 Quote Library — containing “A Fact’s a Fact”

A Theory That You Can’t Explain to a Bartender Is Probably No Damn Good

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

from Ernest Rutherford Quote

No Reasonable Man Could Doubt It

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

All Truth Passes Through Three Stages

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

from Truth-Stages

📖 Excerpts Library

He Who Observes and Measures the Appearances of the Phenomenal World

Q. Define, then, the physical scientist. A. The physical scientist is he who observes and measures the appearances of the phenomenal world and from his data draws conclusions as to the nature of their causes. He deals, therefore, only with...

Source: The Science of the Initiates by Eugene Milne Cosgrove

You’re a Scientist. Stop Guessing. Know. Or Be Quite. That Is All.

You're a scientist. Stop guessing. Know. Or be quite. That is all.

The Secret Teachers of the Western World

Accepted Only That Which It Could See and Touch

Since its beginnings in the seventeenth century, modern science has focused on the kind of “facts” that can be grasped by the senses and proven by measurement. It abandoned the religious explanations for the world, which posited an unseen God...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman

They Merely Refused to Believe That It Was Divine Meddling

This is not to say that the new wave of philosophers necessarily wanted to deny the existence of the gods, rather that they merely refused to believe that it was divine meddling that was responsible for natural phenomena.

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

They Had at Least the Evidence of Their Senses

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give...

Source: Saint Joan (play)

The Slaying of a Beautiful Hypothesis by an Ugly Fact

It is the supreme challenge, and a brutal one, but every scientific theory must be testable and compatible with reality. The nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Huxley stated it thus: ‘The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh