There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, 1858 - 1930
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
- Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970
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 everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.
- Charles Robert Darwin, 1809 - 1882
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
- Jules Henri Poincaré, 1854 - 1912
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
- Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895
The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826
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