“Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.”
Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist
Short fiction, Aspects
“Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.”
Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist
Short fiction, Aspects
“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
Human Options (1981)
“Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Minnesota declaration (1999)
“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Margherita Hack (1922–2013) Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer
Interview with Euronews' Claudio Rocco in 2011; as quoted in " Science says 'ciao' to Italy's Margherita Hack: the 'lady of the stars'", euronews.com (1 July 2013) https://www.euronews.com/2013/07/01/science-says-ciao-to-italy-s-margherita-hack-the-lady-of-the-stars.
Malcolm Azania book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 90 “Unfurl the Sails, Speak the Names of the Stars” (p. 514)
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. The essential fact of our existence, perhaps the only fact of our existence – our own thought and perception is ruled off-side by the science it has invented. Science looks at the universe, doesn’t see itself there, doesn’t see mind there, so you have a world in which mind has no place. We are still no nearer to coming to terms with the actual dynamics of what consciousness is.
“The sum of a million facts is not the truth.”
William Manchester (1922–2004) (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) American author, journalist and historian