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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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A Study in Scarlet (1)
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