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One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.