Quotes About Truth

We can get closer to the truth by negative instances, not by verification! It

George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

Anything one needs to market heavily is necessarily either an inferior product or an evil one. And it is highly unethical to portray something in a more favorable light than it actually is.

Locke's definition of a madman: someone "reasoning correctly from erroneous premises.

Anyone looking for confirmation will find enough of it to deceive himself—and no doubt his peers.*

Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.

From such examples, I derived the rule that what is called "healthy" is generally unhealthy, just as "social" networks are antisocial, and the "knowledge"-based economy is typically ignorant.

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

Science isn't the sum of what scientists think, but exactly as with markets. Had science operated by majority consensus, we would be still stuck in the Middle Ages.

reality provides such forced revisions of beliefs at quite a high frequency. Many

If you see a fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud.

Sticking up for truth when it is unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something—your reputation.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

the (stated) purpose of science is to get to the truth, not to give you a feeling of organization or make you feel better. We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of

One may have a million ways to explain things, but the true explanation is unique, whether or not it is within our reach.

You can replace lies with truth; but myth is only displaced with a narrative.

A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

La persona a quien se atribuye la difusión de esta idea del semiescepticismo tendencioso es sir Doktor Professor Karl Raimund Popper, posiblemente el único filósofo de la ciencia a quien leen y de quien hablan los actores del mundo real (aunque es posible que los filósofos profesionales no lo hagan con tanto entusiasmo).

disconfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth. Yet

One day in the 1980s I had dinner with a famous speculator, a hugely successful man. He muttered the hyperbole that hit home: "much of what other people know isn't worth knowing.

As much as it is ingrained in our habits and conventional wisdom, confirmation can be a dangerous error.

The very same desire for order, interestingly, applies to scientific pursuits-it is just that, unlike art, the (stated) purpose of science is to get to the truth, not to give you a feeling of organization or make you feel better. We tend to use knowledge as therapy.