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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results… — Karl Popper
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their… — Gene Wolfe
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove… — Mark Twain
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always… — Albert Einstein
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into… — Luigi Pirandello
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language,… — Henri Poincare
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the… — Michael Shermer
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside… — Thomas Huxley
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as… — Thomas W. Moore
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them. — Thomas Carlyle
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them… — James M. Barrie
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. — Thomas Sowell
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning,… — Lewis Thomas
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion. — Michael Faraday
I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. — Charles Darwin
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the… — Thomas Paine
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if… — Richard P. Feynman
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this… — Louis Agassiz

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