Quotes About Truth

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Science is the only savior.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

No science ever defends its first principles.