Approach Quote by Paul Feyerabend

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Greg L. Bahnsen

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

— Alfred Adler

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

— William James

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

— Bertrand Russell

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

— Paul Feyerabend

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

— David Douglass

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

— Henry Mayhew

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,…

— William Whewell

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

— Reginald Rose

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