Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
Facts are stupid things stubborn things, I should say.
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
A concept is stronger than a fact.
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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