Quotes About Truth

What is is what must be.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Science is the search for truth.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

The fatal futility of Fact.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.