A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
A belief may be larger than a fact.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
A concept is stronger than a fact.
If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.