Fact Presentation Quotes

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not the kind where people use composite characters and invented quotes. I hate that kind of nonfiction. But imaginative in the sense that good writing and unexpected structure and vivid reporting could be combined with presenting facts.

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

I don't see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.