Correcting Quote by Kitty Ferguson

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of…

— Robert Winston

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

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

Science is but an image of the truth.

— Francis Bacon

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

— Harry Gordon Johnson

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

— John Wilkins

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

— Ann Druyan

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

— P. T. Barnum

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

— Ricky Gervais

Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that…

— James Surowiecki

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

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

— Carroll Quigley