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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… — Stephen Jay Gould
- The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish… — Isaac Newton
- Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally… — L. Neil Smith
- The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
- Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally… — Heinrich Himmler
- As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad
- Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people… — Eugene H. Peterson
- Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's… — Jeanette Winterson