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Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about origin

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about activity, existence

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about air, science, perfection, man

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about encouragement, teachers, students, art, magic

The facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about opinion

The most important thing concerning science is not about how to reach to new facts but how to to discover ways to think about them.

Quote by William Henry Bragg about science, things

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about experience, man

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about truth, public, character

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Quote by Hervey Allen about literature

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Quote by Luther Burbank about science, knowledge, nature, truth

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Quote by Roberto Rossellini about opinion, events

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Quote by Norman Cousins about optimism, waste, time