Being true Quote by Gordon Allport

“That's the whole point to the Scientific Method. It can never actually verify truth, but it can show what is not true.”

— Jim Haines

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.”

— Carl Sagan

“Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative.”

— C. W. Dalton

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science…

— Max Wertheimer

“Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude of veneration…

— Angus Menuge

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

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To say that science is the measure of all true knowledge is not a scientific truth but a philosophic claim about science. It's scientism…

— Scott Klusendorf

“Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false.”

— Robert C. Martin

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

— Kitty Ferguson