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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
- Education
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Albert Einstein
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain1835–1910
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Attributed to Russell in Distilled Wisdom (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145
- Anger
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Proper Studies (1927), “Note on Dogma”
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Time Must Have a Stop (1944), Ch. 30 (Bruno Rontini)
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Saki1870–1916The Square Egg (1924), “Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business”
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.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912
- Science
Scientists believe there is a hierarchy of facts and that among them may be made a judicious choice. They are right, since otherwise there would be no science…
Henri Poincaré1854–1912The Value of Science (1905)
- Science
The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
- Science
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Boy’s Will (1913, 1915), Mowing
- Work
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
?UnattributedAs used by Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World (1995), Introduction, p. 7Often credited to Carl Sagan