Absolute Quote by Brian Schmidt

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and…

— Brian Schmidt

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

— Isaac Asimov

I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd…

— Margaret Wertheim

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

— George Wald

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what…

— Peter Medawar

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in…

— Isaac Asimov

We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not…

— Sean M. Carroll

Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize…

— Anonymous

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You…

— James Lovelock

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

— Karl Marx

Science is the search for truth.

— Linus Pauling

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

— Richard Morris