"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

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"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."

John Bright, British Politician

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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

James Herriot, British Writer

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"The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model."

Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian Scientist

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"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

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"Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

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"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

"The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model."

"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

"Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous."

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"The world is independent of my will."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."