Absolute truth Quote by Brian Cox

“Science and observation can only ever tell us the way that things are. They have no influence on the way that things should be.”

— Lewis N. Roe

“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.”

— Frans de Waal

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.”

— Chandrakanth Natekar

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar…

— Thomas Huxley

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

“that pure science searches for the truth without worrying about its practical application,”

— Luba Vikhanski

“In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions as well.”

— David McRaney

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

— William James

“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.”

— W. Somerset Maugham