Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
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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.
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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