事实
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long.
The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.