Quotes About Truth

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.