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• Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

  Roy H. Williams

  Truth, Two, Half

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• It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.

  Annalee Newitz

  Past, Civilization, Carbon Cycle

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, School, Ideas

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• First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Hands

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution

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• The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Theory Of Evolution, Cosmos, Facts

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey". Documentary, 2014.

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• The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Dream, Inspiration, Artist

  "Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons". Book by Igor Stravinsky, 1947.

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• The Governor was strong upon
  The Regulation Act:
  The Doctor said that Death was but
  A scientific fact:
  And twice a day the Chaplain called,
  And left a little tract.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Science, Doctors

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 3, st. 3

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• There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Science, Facts, Week

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• We know the cause of SIDS. We can and have prevented them. It's all done with a compound called ascorbate. Not to use it means deaths will continue. There is no other answer. There never will be. For our findings are based on scientific facts. Not medical opinion.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Mean, Use, Done

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• If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Suicide, Intellectual, Want

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• Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

  Garrett Fort

  Yesterday, Lines, Superstitions

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• I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Thank God

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

  Scott Adams

  Truth, Reality, Perception

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• It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

  Truman Capote

  Funny, Years, California

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume

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• If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Odds, Giving

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• My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.44, UPNE

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• The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Forget Everything

  "Meditation and Its Methods".

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• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Reality, Law

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• We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

  John F. Kerry

  Minorities, Tiny, Facts

  "John Kerry: Climate change as big a threat as terrorism, poverty, WMDs" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2014.

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• Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

  Homer

  Rocks, Perfection, Rock N Roll

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• The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

  John L. Balderston

  Science, Superstitions, Today

  "Dracula". Play by John L. Balderston, 1924.

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• There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Religious, Growing Up

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.

  Robert Jastrow

  Years, Lasts, Temperature

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• By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

  Hugo Gernsback

  Mean, Romance, Vision

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