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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.… — Nelson Goodman
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of… — Henry Augustus Rowland
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.… — Jeffrey Boam
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge,… — Antoine Lavoisier
This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when… — Catherine of Genoa
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this… — Franz Karl Achard
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. — J. Willard Gibbs
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
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible. — Adrien-Marie Legendre
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.… — Democritus
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a… — D. M. Thomas
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know… — Erwin Chargaff
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support… — Vincenzo Galilei
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a… — C. D. Broad
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it… — Salomon Bochner
Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. — Rudolf Leuckart
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound… — Thomas George Bonney

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