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The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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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. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Facts do not speak. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

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