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"Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed."
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"If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing."
"If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction."
"Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific."
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