Clash Quote by Paul Feyerabend

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are…

— Paul Feyerabend

“When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.”

— Greg L. Bahnsen

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

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

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

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

— Baruch Spinoza

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger…

— Claude Bernard

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

— William James

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

— William James

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Facts are relative to the knowledge man possesses at the present time. Truth however, is absolute and transcends the present, past, and future times.…

— Atom Tate

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