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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as… — Charles Darwin
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have… — Thomas Hobbes
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth. — Karl Popper
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at… — Konrad Lorenz
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any… — Jonathan Swift
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of… — Victor Hugo
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its… — Louis Kronenberger
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. — Aristotle
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color. — John Charles Polanyi
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. — Kurt Vonnegut

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