There is no story that is not true.
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.