Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations in politics perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters and that is the facts.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Science is facts.

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

With acknowledgement of residues we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science the overlapping of disciplines and the total coherence of all facts.

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.

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.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

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

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.

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

The fewer the facts the stronger the opinion.