Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
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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.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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.
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
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.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
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