Scientific Truth Quotes

36 quotes by 30 authors

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a… — Henry David Thoreau
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances… — Marcel Proust
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly,… — Louis Agassiz
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?… — Henri Poincare
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure… — Tom Robbins
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like… — Richard Dawkins
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to… — David Brewster
Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the… — Joseph Murray
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time… — Kurt Vonnegut
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them… — Garrett P. Serviss
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. — Karl Marx
When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem… — Masanobu Fukuoka
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life… — Louis Agassiz
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. — David Douglass
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which… — Marcel Proust
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear… — Daniel Goldin

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