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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.