In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough. — William James Copy Share Image
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
“We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that… — Albert A. Michelson Copy Share Image
The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition. It looked as though the… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To say that science is the measure of all true knowledge is not a scientific truth but a philosophic claim about science.… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
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