Quotes About Truth

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.