Facts - Quotes
Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, if not to facts themselves, because, for it, to submit would be to cease to be.
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.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
Knowledge is always better - safer - in the long run than ignorance, no matter how dismayed one may feel when one first understands certain facts.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
People don`t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.