Quotes About Science

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Experiment is the sole source of truth.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.