An intelligence officer is supposed to collect, analyze and report facts, not defend policy decisions.
Such researchers saw their task as collecting facts about a population.
The first we call the "factual survey", which aims at collecting facts about the conditions of populations.
Perhaps if you could collect enough facts, even the ship theory might be turned into sense.
I like collecting facts, but I also like to see them used.
My eyes don't have to sell newspapers, they just need to collect facts.
After settling down in England he collected facts on sailing ships and wrote books about them.
"We're going to spend the next two years collecting facts."
It is a good thing to have the industry to collect facts.
His interview wasn't coherent from the point of view of collecting reliable facts.