Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas.

“Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. ( Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth .)”

— Isaac Newton

“Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas”

— Aristotle

“Magnus amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas”

— Anonymous

When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided…

— Hilary Kornblith

“No field of human excellence can progress without a genuine humane conscience driving it in the right direction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we…

— Ernst Mach

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

— Carl Sagan

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

— Anonymous

“One may take the line that metaphorical devices are inevitable in the early stages of any science and that although we may look with…

— B.F. Skinner

“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields…

— Herbert A. Simon

“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov believed that…

— Thomas Pynchon

I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue of global…

— David Deming

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…

— Noam Chomsky