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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
If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it… — George Polya
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that… — Albert Einstein
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. — Jean Rostand
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of… — Joseph LeConte
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time… — Arthur C. Clarke
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which… — Baruch Spinoza
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau
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
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. — Jean Rostand
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth. — Jules Verne
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. — Benjamin Disraeli
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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