Adequate Quote by John Wilkins

Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for…

— Scott Adams

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Science is the search for truth.

— Linus Pauling

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

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling…

— Isaac Asimov

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

— Peter Watts

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

— Konrad Lorenz

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever…

— Charles Pierce

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

— Ann Druyan

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are…

— George Santayana

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

— Ricky Gervais

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

— Leo Szilard