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There is nothing more horrible than the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts.
[size=-1]-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld[/size]

 

“What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"--what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!"

Robert Heinlein