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
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy… — Daniel Goldin Copy Share Image
A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No,… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -… — Garrett P. Serviss Copy Share Image
“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Scientific truth is characterized by its exactness and the rigorous quality of its assumptions. But experimental science wins these admirable qualities at… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image