Quote by Otto Von Guericke

“All human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical…

— Leo Strauss

“In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions as well.”

— David McRaney

“Whether or not huge numbers of people believe something has no bearing whatsoever on its truth or validity. In the past, millions believed that…

— James Becker

“We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or not. Scientific…

— Andrew Davison

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Earth juts through the world and world grounds itself on the earth only so far as truth happens as the primal strife between clearing…

— Barbara Bolt

In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the…

— Thomas Huxley

“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.”

— Robert Jastrow

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which world we…

— Haruki Murakami

“The facts are in the outside world. You can verify them with your senses or with objective tests. The truth is something that people…

— M.R. Carey

Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by…

— Thomas Blundeville