Truth Quotes

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

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"The pursuit of truth in chemistry leads to truth in all things."
Gilbert Lewis
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"To deny chemistry is to deny the evidence of your own existence."
Gilbert Lewis
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"The electron's energy levels are as discrete as the steps of a staircase to truth."
Gilbert Lewis
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"To work with matter is to work with the most honest substance in existence."
Gilbert Lewis
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"I love to tell the truth, but I am not obliged to publish all that I know."
Robert Boyle
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"What we believe should be tested against what we observe."
Robert Boyle
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"Certainty in small matters is preferable to guesswork in large ones."
Robert Boyle
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"Certainty in science is a moving target, always receding as we advance."
Robert Boyle
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"To ignore evidence is to mock reason itself."
Robert Boyle
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"Facts must be facts. Nature cannot contradict herself."
Michael Faraday
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"Love of truth must exceed the fear of being wrong."
Michael Faraday
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"What we do by lamplight, the world sees by sunlight."
Michael Faraday
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"One grain of truth is worth a mountain of conjecture."
Michael Faraday
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"Truth cannot be hidden forever; it will emerge."
Michael Faraday
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"Precision in measurement is the foundation of all scientific truth."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"The expansion of gases follows laws as reliable as the stars themselves."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"We must not confuse what we believe with what we can demonstrate."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"The pursuit of truth demands that we question everything, even our most cherished beliefs."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Truth is not what we wish to be true, but what evidence demonstrates to be true."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"A balloon rises because it is lighter than the air around it—truth rises by the same principle."
Jacques Charles
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"Nature is patient with our ignorance, but not with our willful blindness."
Jacques Charles
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"To refuse to look is to choose ignorance as one's companion."
Jacques Charles
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"Skepticism is not the enemy of faith; it is the guardian of truth."
Jacques Charles
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"Nature's laws are written in the language of consequence and cause."
Jacques Charles
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"Precision in measurement is the foundation of all honest inquiry."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"To measure is to respect; to estimate is to deceive."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Accurate measurement is the foundation of all honest science."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Every substance has its true weight, whether in atoms or in character."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Without experimentation, theory is merely speculation dressed in elegant language."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"The weight of evidence always outweighs the weight of opinion."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius