Checkable Quotes

#1. When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

J. Michael Straczynski

#3. Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

Sara Zarr

#5. Wynand asked: "Howard, have you ever been in love?" Roark turned to look straight at him and answer quietly: "I still am." "But when you walk through a building, what you feel is greater than that?" "Much greater, Gail.

Ayn Rand

#6. Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed, life arose here spontaneously and accidentally, it is reasonable to hope that we might find traces of the same kind of process on Mars.

Graham Hancock

#7. Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Rick Riordan

#8. When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

Nick Offerman

#9. When she's close enough, she extends her hand. "Hello, my name is Natalie. I'm Beatrice's mother." Beatrice. That name is so wrong for her.

Veronica Roth

#10. Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

Alfred Hitchcock