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• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural… — David Attenborough
• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
• The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,… — Geraldine Brooks
• I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our… — Albert Einstein
• You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual… — Steve Wozniak
• Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital… — E. O. Wilson
• The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming… — Michael Polanyi
• In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating… — E. O. Wilson
• That claim was not intended to be a factual statement. — Jon Kyl
• The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to… — John Allen Paulos
• It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and… — Ernest Nagel
• The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been… — John E. Jones III

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