Adversaries Quote by Max Planck

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

— Max Planck

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to…

— Vannevar Bush

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the…

— Paul Johnson

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common…

— Louis Agassiz

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

— Dean Ornish

“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

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 progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a…

— Max Planck

“The truth will continue to flourish and spread throughout the earth. Sometimes all it takes is a little faith and a little patience. Things…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort,…

— Heinz Pagels