Quotes About Science

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one.

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.