Contradiction Quote by Roland Barthes

“Just as the dignity of man is based on his freedom--to the extent that he may even say no to God--likewise, the dignity of…

— Viktor Frankl

“The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them,"…

— Ibn al-Haytham

“This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.”

— Christopher Essex

“[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by…

— Brian Cox

“Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude of veneration…

— Angus Menuge

“And our resistance against changing our habits of thought is immense and unrelenting. If we try, briefly, we find it ass vexing and unrewarding…

— Sydney J. Harris

“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so entirely out…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Science confirms faith in ways only a poet could understand.”

— Jonah Gibson

I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of…

— J. G. Ballard

“No one, from pontiffs to professors, has a monopoly on the truth. In the end, we are all just travelers--not scientists or mystics or…

— David Darling

“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess…

— Augustus Toplady

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould