Light Quote by Max Planck

“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

A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No, the adversaries…

— Max Planck

“As physicist Max Planck once observed, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but…

— Adam M. Grant

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

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

— Peter Watts

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what…

— Richard Dawkins

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.”

— Carl Sagan

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

— Karl Marx

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

— Horace Mann

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

— Chandrakanth Natekar

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

— Louis Agassiz

Science is the search for truth.

— Linus Pauling