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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.