Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Every proof must be built on the bedrock of irrefutable logic."
David Hilbert
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"One cannot prove a negative in mathematics."
David Hilbert
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"Every mathematical concept must be built upon clear and unambiguous definitions."
David Hilbert
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"I entertain no doubt as to the absolute certitude and truth of the transfinite numbers."
Georg Cantor
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"The deeper principle is that each mathematical truth is absolute."
Georg Cantor
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"Truth is reality congruent with thought."
Georg Cantor
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"The infinite world is no less real than the finite."
Georg Cantor
"The world is rational. One should only believe what is provable."
Kurt Gödel
"I cannot believe that any sensible person doubts the truth of this."
Kurt Gödel
"My conviction is that the truth is the highest good."
Kurt Gödel
"One must distinguish between what is provable and what is true."
Kurt Gödel
"Certainty is an illusion that lesser minds afford themselves."
Kurt Gödel
"I have shown that absolute certainty is mathematically impossible."
Kurt Gödel
"The rational world has been revealed to have irrational foundations."
Kurt Gödel
"One cannot escape the paradoxes inherent in all thinking."
Kurt Gödel
"I have shown that knowledge itself is fundamentally incomplete."
Kurt Gödel
"Truth is larger than any container we build for it."
Kurt Gödel
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite of the will to believe."
Bertrand Russell
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it."
Bertrand Russell
"A truer tale than any on the stage."
Bertrand Russell
"That which is accepted as truth without examination is the enemy of progress."
Bertrand Russell
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"The laws of physics are immutable and universal."
Georg Ohm
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"The foundation of all science is honest measurement."
Georg Ohm
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"A single correct observation is worth more than a thousand assumptions."
Georg Ohm
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"The pursuit of truth requires abandoning comfortable falsehoods."
Georg Ohm
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"A true investigator follows evidence wherever it leads, regardless of expectations."
Georg Ohm
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"Nature's laws are not negotiable; they simply are what they are."
Georg Ohm
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"A single true observation is worth more than a thousand false theories."
Georg Ohm
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"The pursuit of truth is the noblest of all endeavors."
André-Marie Ampère
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"Careful measurement leads to certain truth."
André-Marie Ampère