Best effort Quote by Peter Watts

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

— Arthur Eddington

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

— Ricky Gervais

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

Science is the search for truth.

— Linus Pauling

As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.

— Henry Markram

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

— Ann Druyan

Science is but an image of the truth.

— Francis Bacon

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

— P. T. Barnum

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 merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

— Carl Sagan

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

— John Wilkins

“Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.…

— Gustave Le Bon