Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.