“Nessuna cosa ci inganna più del nostro giudizio.”
“There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“Prejudice is a disease.”
-Lady Gaga
“What a funny time when it's easier to smash an atom than a prejudice!”
“Es ist schwieriger eine vorgefasste Meinung zu zertrümmern als ein Atom.”
-Einstein
“I care about climate justice and the living planet. (...) In the year 2078, I will celebrate my 75th birthday. If I have children maybe they will spend that day with me. Maybe they will ask me about you. Maybe they will ask why you didn't do anything while there still was time to act. You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.”
- Greta Thunberg
“Everything happens as if we were waging a war against Nature... and we know that if we win, we are lost. So the question arises: is intelligence a poisoned gift? Was it a good idea for Nature to have given us the intelligence if that intelligence would eliminate us?”
“Tout se passe comme si nous menions une guerre contre la Nature... et nous savons que si nous gagnons, nous sommes perdus. Alors la question se pose: l'intelligence est-elle un cadeau empoisonné? Est-ce que c'était une bonne idée, pour la Nature, de nous avoir donné l'intelligence si cette intelligence devait nous éliminer?”
- Reeves
“Simply put: if we don't protect Nature, we can't protect ourselves.”
- Harrison Ford
“Sometimes you have to view things from a distance in order to see the real truth. It is America’s destiny to be at the forefront of humanity’s eternal quest for knowledge and to be the leader amongst nations on our adventure into the great unknown. And I could say the great and very beautiful unknown. Nothing more beautiful.”
- Donald J. Trump
“That’s how America’s Founders intended our system to work – that through the testing of ideas and the application of reason and proof it would be possible to arrive at a basis for common ground. And I should add for this to work, we have to actually believe in an objective reality. (...) You have to believe in facts. Without facts, there is no basis for cooperation. If I say this is a podium and you say this is an elephant, it’s going to be hard for us to cooperate.”
- Barack Obama
“For here am I sitting in a tin can. Far above the world, planet Earth is round, and right now, I’ve no further doubt ♫.”
-Chris Hadfield
“There is a fact, a fact in everything, that's how the light gets in... ♫”
- Cohen
“Lalala Güccigücci Güccigücci Päf Brelebeshre Heyhey ♫.”
“The Love of facts is the light of the heart to better divide the true from the true false ♫.”
- Gouri Glogenflobish
“Eine neue Art von Denken ist notwendig, wenn die Menschheit weiterleben will.”
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”
-Albert Einstein
“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”
-Arnold H. Glasgow
“WE ARE GOING THROUGH THIS PERIOD OF TIME RIGHT HERE WHERE UNFORTUNATELY SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WINNING - ONLINE - ARE THE PEOPLE THAT SPEND THEIR TIME TRYING TO GET THE MOST CLICKS, NOT TELL THE MOST TRUTH. IT’S KILLING PEOPLE’S MINDS IN A WAY.”
- Cook
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
- Orwell
“Se peut-il qu’un homme soit moins sage qu'un oiseau ?”
“Could humans be less wise than birds?”
- Confucius
“Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!”
- Barack Obama
“♩♬ ♪ ♪ ♪♬ 🎶 ♪♪♪♪♪...♩🎶♫”
- Trololo
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
- McLuhan
“We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.”
- Suzuki
“OUR HOUSE IS BURNING AND WE LOOK ELSEWHERE. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, is no longer able to recover and we refuse to admit it. Humanity suffers. It suffers from underdevelopment, in both North and South, and we are indifferent. The earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible for it. It is time, I think, to open our eyes. → (Johannesburg, 2002)”
“NOTRE MAISON BRÛLE ET NOUS REGARDONS AILLEURS. La nature, mutilée, surexploitée, ne parvient plus à se reconstituer et nous refusons de l'admettre. L'humanité souffre. Elle souffre de mal-développement, au Nord comme au Sud, et nous sommes indifférents. La terre et l'humanité sont en péril et nous en sommes tous responsables. Il est temps, je crois, d'ouvrir les yeux. → (Johannesburg, 2002)”
- Chirac
“Give Facts a Chance ? ♫”
- Lennon
“It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web!”
“Today, most people find news and information on the web through just a handful of social media sites and search engines. These sites make more money when we click on the links they show us. And, they choose what to show us based on algorithms which learn from our personal data that they are constantly harvesting.”
“The net result is that these sites show us content they think we’ll click on – meaning that misinformation, or ‘fake news’, which is surprising, shocking, or designed to appeal to our biases can spread like wildfire.”
“And through the use of data science and armies of bots, those with bad intentions can game the system to spread misinformation for financial or political gain.”
- Berners-Lee
“It is ignorance, not knowledge, that makes enemies of men.”
- Annan
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.”
- Averroes
“Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
- JFK
“Ne tenez pour certain que ce qui est démontré.”
- Isaac Newton
“Aucun de nous ne sait ce que nous savons tous, ensemble.”
- Euripides
“May our choices reflect our hopes, not our fears.”
- Mandela
“A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage. With discipline belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.”
- GSP
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
- Shakespeare
“A fundamental question is becoming more and more pressing: will the contemporary planetary crisis end as a result of the determined action of Earthlings... or because Earthlings have become extinct?”
“Une question fondamentale se pose d’une façon de plus en plus pressante: la crise planétaire contemporaine prendra-t-elle fin grâce à l'action déterminée des Terriens ou par leur disparition ?”
- Reeves
“♩♬ ♪ ♪ ♪♬ 🎶 ♪♪♪♪♪...♩🎶♫”
- Man
“Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”
- Austin
“Think different / Piensa diferente / Pensez différent.”
- Jobs
“Let’s do it !”
-Gary Mark Gilmore
“If everyone had been against evolution, Man would still be in the caves busy suckling domestic grizzlies.”
“Si tout le monde avait été contre l'évolution, l'Homme serait encore dans les cavernes à téter les grizzlys domestiques.”
- Boris
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
- Shaw
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
-WKC
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only LIGHT can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only LOVE can do that.”
- Dr King
“Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.”
- Dawkins
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity: it's the little LED which illuminates the Global Village.”
“La science n’a pas de patrie car le savoir est le patrimoine de l’humanité, la petite LED qui éclaire le Village Global.”
- Pasteur
“Unite behind the science, that is our demand. Talk to the scientists, listen to them.”
-45 Greta Thunberg
“Punches on the table, eye rolling, foot-stamping, proofs without proof, are the arguments of those who do not have any.”
“Coups de poing sur la table, roulement d'yeux, tapages de pieds, preuves sans preuve, sont les arguments de ceux qui n'en n'ont pas.”
- Félix
“FREEDOM OF OPINION IS A FARCE UNLESS FACTUAL INFORMATION IS GUARANTEED AND THE FACTS THEMSELVES ARE NOT IN DISPUTE.”
- Arendt
“Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”
- Lebowski
“I'm looking for a world where LOVE OF FACTS will no longer be extraordinary.”
- Dr Patch
“Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine.”
- Turing
“I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.”
- McLuhan
“L'essentiel est sans cesse menacé par l'insignifiant.”
- René Char
“La liberté commence où l'ignorance finit.”
- Victor Hugo
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
- Armstrong
“How is it possible that the most intellectual creature ever to walk planet Earth is destroying its only home?”
- Jane Goodall
“THE LOVE OF FACTS IS THE LIGHT FROM THE HEART TO BETTER DIVIDE THE TRUTH FROM THE FALSE ♫”
“Arëvën ader igün ti shnöüch ti böni köüshniëtzchë ti krützh nöm ä nik öün titch tö litz ♫.”
- Glogenflobish
“There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“Prejudice is a desease.”
- Lady Gaga
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- Lady Gaga, citant Greta Thunberg
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- Harrison Ford, avec deux doigts
“Fact: Greta Thunberg's two quotes are modified in this letter of opinion.”
-Harrisson Ford, with two fingers
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- Harrison Ford, con dos dedos
“How is it possible that the most intellectual creature ever to walk planet Earth is destroying its only home?”
- Jane Goodall
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- Chris Hadfield, chanteur de l'espace
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- Un colibri albinos
“♪ Viva the Love of Facts”
- An albino hummingbird
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- Un colibrí albino
“For our social debates to work, we have to actually believe in an objective reality. We have to believe in facts. Without the facts, there’s no basis for cooperation.”
- Barack Obama
“Sometimes you have to view things from a distance in order to see the real truth.”
- Donald J. Trump
“Unite behind the science!”
- Greta Thunberg
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive...”
- Albert Einstein
“The fewer the facts, the more explosive the opinions!”
- Elvis Presley
“Simply put: if we don't protect Nature, we can't protect ourselves.”
- Harrison Ford
“What if we switch over to the Fact-Checking Era in 2020?”
- Brenda Moon
“Fact: Elvis Presley is doubly misquoted in this little fact-checking game.”
- Mona Lisa
“I care about climate justice and the living planet.”
- Greta Thunberg
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- David Bowie, cité par Chris Hadfield
“For here am I sitting in a tin can. Far above the world, planet Earth is round, and right now, I’ve no further doubt ♫.”
-David Bowie, quoted by Chris Hadfield
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- Bowie, citado por Chris Hadfield
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- David Bowie, avec moustache
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- David Bowie, with mustache
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- David Bowie, con bigote
“Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.”
- Elvis Presley
“Many people think that climate change is an opinion, but it's not an opinion, it's a fact. You can't say "i don't think that the heart is pumping blood", it's a fact.”
-Greta Thunberg
“We have to get together and take action now.”
- Jane Goodall
“Our war on nature must end.”
-Greta Thunberg
“Many people think that climate change is an opinion, but it's not an opinion, it's a fact. You can't say "i don't think that the heart is pumping blood", it's a fact.”
- Lady Gaga, quoting Greta Thunberg
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- Lady Gaga, citando Greta Thunberg
“Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.”
- Marilyn Monroe
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
- Huxley
“One thing that’s new that is a little concerning is people seeking out things that are really not giving them the facts, and then staying in there.”
- Gates
“A single spark can start a prairie fire.”
“星星之火,可以燎原”
- Mao
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”
- Yoda
“We must learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.”
- MLK
“Every one is right from his own standpoint, but it is not impossible that every one is wrong.”
- Gandhi
“Fascinating”
-Spock
“Everything that can be imagined is real.”
“Todo lo que puede ser imaginado es real.”
-Picasso
“I DON'T BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY; I'M A SAGITTARIUS AND WE'RE SKEPTICAL.”
- HAL9000
“Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.”
-Marx
“1974 ! → In the future, WE WILL LIVE out in the country or wherever we please, and still carry on complete interactions with other human beings as well as computers. → 1974 !”
- HAL9000
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“For here am I sitting in a tin can. Far above the world, planet Earth is round, and right now, I'm no longer skeptical ♫.”
- Bowie
“To infinity, and beyond!”
-Lightyear
“Five steps to quickly move into the fact-checking era:”
“➜ 1. To gather several "volunteers in love with facts".”
“➜ 2. To build a tool that works with "Factual Intelligence" (IQ + AI).”
“➜ 3. To form real teams to play fact-checking online.”
“➜ 4. To make their verified facts very easy to find, for one and all, 24/24.”
“➜ 5. To make it so easy to "play fact-checking" that it will become a "new natural reflex" for anyone.”
“↳ "Give facts a chance!" ♫”
- Viva Fact-Checking!
“Everything happens as if we were waging a war against Nature... and we know that if we win, we are lost.”
-Hubert Reeves, astrophysicien pacifique
“Everything happens as if we were waging a war against Nature... and we know that if we win, we are lost.”
-Hubert Reeves, peacefull astrophysicist
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-Hubert Reeves, astrofísico pacífico
“Me, I'm skeptical: it is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
- Hawking
“Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated.”
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“What is there to fight for? LIFE is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish.”
- Charlie Chaplin
“LIFE is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish.”
-Charlie Chaplin
“LIFE is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to my right foot.”
-Charlie Chaplin
“What a funny time when it's easier to smash an atom than a prejudice!”
-Albert Einstein
“How about we quickly create new ways to sort the true from the false? And why don't we team up to "play fact-checking" ?!?”
-Chris Hadfield, space singer
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-Chris Hadfield, cantante espacial
“What is the long term effect of too much information? One of the effects is the need to be first, not even to be true anymore. So what is the responsibility we all have? To tell the truth, not to just be first, but to tell the truth.”
-Washington
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”
- Churchill
“Yeah. I wasn’t really dead...”
- McCartney
“The main scourge of humanity is not ignorance, but the refusal to know.”
“Le principal fléau de l'humanité n'est pas l'ignorance, mais le refus de savoir.”
-Simone
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“Dans la vie rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre. Le moment est venu de mieux comprendre, pour que nous ayons moins peur.”
- Curie
↳ Fake News (Wikipedia)
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”
-Elvis
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”
- JK Rowling
“Our citizen initiative is non-partisan and non-profit.”
“Our little team in Montreal thanks the exceptional artists behind the images used on this site, including:”
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“Give Facts a Chance ? ♫”
- John Lennon
“To infinity, and beyond!”
- Buzz Lightyear
“LIFE is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, like a rose.”
- Rose Power, friend of Jane Goodall
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- Rose Picasso, amiga de Jane Goodall
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- N'importe qui, n'importe où
“Viva Fact-Checking! ♫”
- Anyone, anywhere, anytime
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- Cualquiera y en cualquier lugar
“The moon is looking like an open eye.”
“La lune regarde comme un oeil ouvert.”
- Félix
“Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.”
- Elvis Presley
“As Greta Thunberg said: We have to act like our house is on fire, because it is.”
- Fonda
“Je pense que tout est possible à qui rêve, ose, travaille et n'abandonne jamais.”
“I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.”
- Dolan
“Just because there are so many of them being wrong doesn't mean they're right!”
“C'est pas parce qu'ils sont nombreux à avoir tort qu'ils ont raison!”
- Coluche
“Personne ne connait l'avenir. Mais nous pouvons détailler les menaces, nous pouvons aller visiter des lieux où ce que nous craignions est en train de se produire. LES DECISIONS QUI VONT ETRE PRISES CES ANNEES-CI VONT INFLUENCER LE COURS DE LA VIE HUMAINE PENDANT DES MILLIERS D’ANNEES.”
“No one knows the future. But we can identify the threats, we can visit the places where what we feared might happen is indeed happening. THE DECISIONS THAT ARE MADE IN THE NEXT FEWS YEARS WILL INFLUENCE THE COURSE OF HUMAN LIFE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.”
- Hubert Reeves
“THIS IS A TIME FOR FACTS, NOT FEAR. THIS IS A TIME FOR SCIENCE, NOT RUMOURS. THIS IS A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY, NOT STIGMA.”
- Dr WHO