Michael Faraday on facts

ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan1927–2003Often credited to Unattributed

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935

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If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.