Bible Quote by Louis Agassiz

“Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last,…

— Matthew Pearl

There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“My final slide quoted the words of biologist Louis Agassiz: ‘Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the…

— Tim Noakes

“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong…

— Alexander Von Humboldt

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

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit…

— Bill Bryson

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in…

— Charles Lyell

“Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.”

— Chandrakanth Natekar

“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a…

— Francis S. Collins

“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

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.”

— Adam M. Grant

Something that I love about scientific truths is that they are true - but not fact. They're true until proven otherwise.

— Tom Sandoval