A Quote by Henry Mayhew

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

Henry Mayhew

Quote Topics

Either Facts May Principles Proceed

Quote Author

Henry Mayhew
English - Journalist
November 25, 1812 - July 25, 1887

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Henry Mayhew

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.

Paul Feyerabend

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

David Byrne

[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.

Robert Watson-Watt

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Pearl S. Buck

The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

Alfred North Whitehead

While the ACLU's supposed principles may shift with the political winds, facts do not. They cannot.

Chad Wolf

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

Joel Osteen

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

Jerome Bruner

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

James F. Cooper

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

Steven Petrow

Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.

Alexandra Petri

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

Cynthia Ozick

A Quote by Henry Mayhew

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors