Not The Facts

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong.  We can only make them right by discussion.

-- Sir Norman Angell, born Ralph Norman Angell Lane, (1872 - 1967), British economist, lecturer, writer, Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933, as quoted in American Railway Engineering Association : Proceedings of the Annual Convention, Volume 51 (1950), p. 815