Quotes on Gathering Data

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.