Quotes About Truth

Science is the poetry of reality.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

What is known for certain is dull.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.