#ruth

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#truth #romantic

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#humility #science #skepticism #truth #science

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ↗

— Anonymous

#creation #god #science #scripture #truth

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#philosophy #truth #science

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ↗

— Evelyn Fox Keller

#truth #science

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #science

...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination. ↗

— Patti Smith

#beauty #honesty #purpose #truth #art

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. ↗

— Jules Verne

#facts #knowledge #science #scientific-method #truth

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#lesion #truth-telling #science

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. ↗

— Rivka Galchen

#ideas #physics #science #truth #unbelievable