Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house And a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
There are one-story intellects two-story intellects and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason generalize using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize imagine predict; their best illumination comes from above through the skylight.
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise mans knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense or indulge in sheer nonsense.
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known false ideas are just as effective as true ones if not a little more effective.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it or for the proof which it furnishes.
A concept is stronger than a fact.
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house And a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Comment is free but facts are sacred.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back.
Trust your hunches. Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
But facts are facts and flinch not.
I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know but I feel it and am in agony.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
If the facts dont fit the theory change the facts.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Get the facts or the facts will get you. And when you get em get em right or they will get you wrong.
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
There are one-story intellects two-story intellects and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason generalize using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize imagine predict; their best illumination comes from above through the skylight.
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise mans knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense or indulge in sheer nonsense.
Face the facts of being what you are for that is what changes what you are.
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known false ideas are just as effective as true ones if not a little more effective.
Im not sure I want popular opinion on my side Ive noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
There are no facts only interpretations.
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
We must have strong minds ready to accept facts as they are.
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.