Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. — Richard P. Feynman 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
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie 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
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it… — David Brewster 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
“My final slide quoted the words of biologist Louis Agassiz: ‘Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts… — Tim Noakes 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
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
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
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
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
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific… — Anonymous 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
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