Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910
was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
Aldous (Leonard) Huxley, 1894-1963
was an English critic and novelist
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.