Quotes About Truth

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.