Quotes About Truth

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

Metaphysics is a science.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.