I’m not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called “scientific” mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928), U.S. novelist, short–story writer. “We Are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables,” The First Ms. Reader, ed. Francine Klagsbrun (1972).