Brute Facts

Famous quotes containing the words brute and/or facts:

“Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“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 (b. 1928)