Accounts Quote by Hermann Bondi

“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check,…

— Terry Pratchett

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

— Martin H. Fischer

'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A…

— Gottlob Frege

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

— Robert Rankin

Science is facts.

— Henri Poincare

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is…

— Bertrand Russell

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

Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but…

— Anonymous

Something that I love about scientific truths is that they are true - but not fact. They're true until proven otherwise.

— Tom Sandoval

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum…

— Francois Magendie

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality…

— Natalie Angier

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany