Surprising Facts Quotes

#1. Did you know the following surprising facts? "Surgery has been found to be helpful in only 1 in 100 cases of low back pain.

Fred Amir

#2. It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

Freeman Dyson

#3. There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would say, though, is that some X-event is not only plausible, but very likely in a time scale of a few years.

John L. Casti

#5. It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

Dennis Lindley

#6. You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

Richard Leakey

#8. It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Rudolf Carnap

#9. One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

Ann Richards

#10. I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

John Dieterich

#11. The most surprising fact that people do not know about breast cancer is that about 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer. Much more than just family history and inherited genes factor into the breast cancer equation.

Kristi Funk

#12. I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

Sarah Palin

#13. An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Salvador Dali

#14. It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

Stromae

#15. Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke.

Jacob De Jager

#16. You don't like Talon, do you? (Sunshine) Wish him dead every time I see him. (Zarek) I can't tell if you mean that or not. (Sunshine) I mean it. (Zarek) Why? (Sunshine) He's an asshole and I've had enough assholes in my life. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon