The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amend...ed to be true, they lose their explanatory force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and ...root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience.... Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories t...o bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old guard may grumble and occasionally sue, but in a society where Portnoy's Complaint is a record-breaking best- seller sexua...l permissiveness is no longer an issue. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve-ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this re...ason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How many facts we have fallen through And still the old façade glimmers there,... A mirage, but permanent. We must first trick the ideaLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »