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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…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

— Thomas Sowell

Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory,…

— Oliver Heaviside

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and…

— Raphael Gasson

I always believe in facts.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

— Alfred Adler

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

— Baruch Spinoza

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the…

— Anonymous

Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place…

— Louis Agassiz

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

— George Santayana