Competent Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case,…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from…

— Thomas Binney

How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

— Virginia Woolf

“Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation…

— Ilchi Lee

“It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

— Martha Albrand

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that…

— Carl Jung

“Rather than simply ignoring contradictory information, we often examine it particularly closely. The end product of this intense scrutiny is that the contradictory information…

— Thomas Gilovich

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do…

— Charles Darwin