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“The Register of Knowledge Of Fact is called History.”
Thomas Hobbes
,
Leviathan
“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.”
Mahatma Gandhi
,
The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish”
David Hume
,
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.”
Thomas Hobbes
,
Leviathan
“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”
William James
,
The Varieties of Religious Experience
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
Winston Churchill
,
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
“The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
,
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact;”
Thomas Henry Huxley
,
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
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