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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and le

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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