Rosalind Franklin
Chemist, X-ray Crystallographer
"Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment."
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Alfred Adler
Psychologist
"It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent."
Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings."
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"What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination."
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"A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts."
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"We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start."
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"Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats"
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"Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality"
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"You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself."
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"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."
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"One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive."
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"The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living."
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"The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless."
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"The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
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"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
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"I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them."
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"Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference."
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"Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan."
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"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
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"The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English."
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"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."
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"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
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"For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly."
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