 | "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
- Albert Einstein
, (attributed). |
| "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
, "Proper Studies", 1927. |
| "Where facts are few, experts are many."
- Donald R. Gannon
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| "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
, Gnomologia, 1732. |
| "Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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| "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams
, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770. |
| "Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."
- John Gunther
. |
| "Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
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| "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
- Mark Twain
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| "He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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