#facts

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. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. ↗

— Mark Twain

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If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. ↗

— David Douglass

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction. ↗

— Janet Leigh

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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. ↗

— Robert Peel

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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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