Accounts Quote by Vissarion Belinsky

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

— Anonymous

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered…

— Alice Roberts

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 the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

— Ernst Mach

“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be nowhere near…

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov

evidence without ideas is more valuable than ideas without evidence.

— E. C. R. Lorac

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can…

— Frances Wright

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy…

— Cynthia Ozick

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer