Quotes About Truth

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.