Quotes About Truth

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Science is the true theology.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.